Posted on 06/02/2015 7:28:52 AM PDT by dennisw
The Vanity Fair photo of Bruce Jenner in a boob-enhancing swimsuit is being described as iconic. Bruce, one-time American athlete, now wants to be known as Caitlyn, having recently undergone some gender transitioning. And he’s using the cover of the latest Vanity Fair to make his ‘debut as a woman’. Next to the headline ‘Call me Caitlyn’, he’s all photoshopped svelteness, pampered hair and look-at-me breasts, in what many experts are already describing as ‘an iconic image in magazine history’.
The photo is indeed iconic. And not just in the shallow celeb meaning of that word. It’s iconic in the traditional sense, too, in that it’s being venerated as an actual icon, a devotional image of an apparently holy human. It’s an image we’re all expected to bow down to, whose essential truth we must imbibe; an image you question or ridicule at your peril, with those who refuse to genuflect before it facing excommunication from polite society. Yesterday’s Jennermania confirms how weirdly authoritarian, even idolatrous, trans politics has become.
There is a palpable religiosity to the wild hailing of Bruce/Caitlyn as a modern-day saint, a Virgin Mary with testicles. Within four hours, more than a million people were following Bruce/Caitlyn’s new Twitter account, hanging on her words like the expectant horde waiting for Moses at the foot of Mount Sinai. Her every utterance, all banal celeb-speak, was retweeted tens of thousands of times. Celebs and commentators greeted her as a kind of messiah. ‘We’ve been waiting for you with open arms’, said an overexcited editor at Buzzfeed. Across the Twittersphere Caitlyn was worshipped as a ‘goddess’, a ‘goddess in human form’, a ‘goddess made manifest on Earth’. ‘Caitlyn Jenner could fucking stab me right now and leave me for dead and I’d die fucking overjoyed we are not WORTHY OF THIS GODDESS’, said one trans tweeter, and she wasn’t joking.
In the media, the talk is of how Caitlyn and her iconic likeness might give an adrenalin shot to humanity itself. A writer for the Guardian describes Caitlyn as a ‘queen’ and instructs us to ‘bow down, bitches’, telling us her icon on the front of Vanity Fair is ‘life-affirming’. Treating Caitlyn as a kind of Christ figure, only in a push-up bra rather than smock, Ellen DeGeneres says this goddess brings ‘hope for the world’, and we should all try to be ‘as brave as Caitlyn’.
Susan Sarandon celebrated Bruce/Caitlyn’s mysterious ‘rebirth’ while Demi Moore thanked him/her for sharing with humanity ‘the gift of your beautiful authentic self’. A writer for the Huff Post says the name Caitlyn means ‘pure’ – ‘what a perfect meaning, right?’ Truly, yes, for St Caitlyn, reborn to educate us all, is most pure.
With its millions of agog followers, its worship of an iconic image, its insistence we all ‘bow down’, the Cult of Caitlyn gives Catholic mariolatry a run for its money in the blind-devotion stakes. And of course, as with all venerated icons, anyone who refuses to recognise the truth of Caitlyn’s Vanity Fair cover has faced mob punishment or finger-wagging corrections of their goddess-defying blasphemy.
So when Drake Bell, a former American child star, tweeted ‘Sorry… still calling you Bruce’, he became the subject of global fury. The Cult of Caitlyn went insane. Even after Bell deleted his blasphemous comment, tweeters mauled him, suggesting he deactivate his Twitter account, or better still, ‘deactivate his life’. Meanwhile, a Twitter robot called @she_not_he has been set up to correct any ‘misgendering’ of Caitlyn. Winning high praise from much of the media, this bot is ‘scrubbing Twitter, looking for anyone who uses the “he” pronoun in conjunction with Caitlyn Jenner’s name’. The bot’s inventor says he is delighted that these misgendering miscreants have been ‘apologetic in their replies to the bot’, and ‘some have even deleted their original tweet’.
In short, they’ve repented. Just as those who denied the divinity of Christ were once expected to recant their heresy, so those who deny the gender of Caitlyn Jenner are hounded by bots into apologising for their moral error. The American gay-rights group GLAAD is scouring the mainstream media for any use of the word ‘he’ in relation to Caitlyn, like a modern incarnation of the Vatican’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which monitored the public sphere for any less-than-gushing commentary on God. It has issued speech-policing guidelines for the media. ‘DON’T refer to her by her former name… DO avoid using male pronouns and Caitlyn’s prior name, even when referring to events in her past.’
The worship of Caitlyn, and the hectoring of anyone who refuses to scrape ...............
Bunch of sick POS perverts.
After Lindsey I thought we were done, but I think we’ve found the next GOP presidential candidate.
Eeeeeuuuuuuuuu! Gross!
Unbelievable. Makes one wonder if there’s any hope for this country with so many people walking around with their head up their anal exit cavity.
I saw that yesterday that Twitter was emailing notifications reminding members to “follow” Caitlyn. No wonder she/he has 1 million followers. Twitter is pushing it.
You know, considering all that is going on in the world, maybe I’m the one that’s nuts.
I’m testing the tweet bot.
Who most famously hates creation? I think I know the source of this approval.
Vile. Disgusting. The fact that this isn’t being roundly condemned—and made mockery of—from pillar to post just illustrates that we are at a socio-economic stage where nothing matters except monetary profit and self-fulfillment. A late stage indeed. We all know that Bruce Jenner is, and always will be male, and there’s nothing he or anyone else can do to change this. Sadly, I think this is just another hint of the approaching End Times. And yes, we can never be sure of when exactly that will be. But, if we happen upon a woman who is obviously pregnant, we can be pretty sure she is going to give birth, even if we do not know exactly when. Thus it is with the End Times. They are “pregnant”; it’s only a question of when.
Culturally we used to look up to people like Audie Murphy or Chuck Yeager or Neil Armstrong.
Now, as a country, we idolize freaks and perverts. Celebrate them. America has become a sick, sick place. Mentally degenerate. There’s just no doubt in my mind that all this is a reflection of a nation entering into its death-spiral.
Acceptance of this new way for Jenner to deal with the problem of brain not matching genitals is WELCOME. These people are suffering, and the only treatment offered them is to try and live according to the brain gender, which is a very poor treatment as it only results in contentment 50% of the time. (Many try to get back to the previous gender they lived under)
Acceptance, yes. Try this out, Caitlin, and we will understand your desire to feel normal within your skin, and that is fair.
BUT THIS WORSHIP IS ACTUALLY SICK. Most of these people would have mocked you 10 years ago, and might even still mock you privately. This is a patient with a problem attempting to treat the problem. She needs support because she tried to just hide her condition for 65 years, and to me that is a good long try. But let’s stop the freakish fawning. Holy bustier! Really.
Yea, a mentally ill man so filled with self hatred that he mutilates himself so he can pretend to be someone else.
That's something we should all celebrate!
Mental illness. CELEBRATED Mental illness.
And yet, liberals can’t figure out why the muzzies want to kill us?
Lots and lots of airbrushing of that photo. The picture may be Caitlyn but that old man posing there with his sausage stuffed to the side is still Bruce.
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He is clearly mentally ill and being encouraged by those with a hard left agenda. But in the meantime Bruce, what to do about those broad shoulders and deep voice? Troubling!!
My guess is that the baby girls named Caitlyn will fail in numbers dramatically.
Note: Jenner is a Republican which further complicates matters.
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