Remembered this from my youth. Read bottom left hand panel. Who knew "Mad Magazine" was so prescient?
Has he changed his penis yet?
Reposting my post from another thread:
I watched the TV interview. I believe there are things in the brain / hormones that we don’t understand. I believe he found himself unable to ever be comfortable as himself because his brain, inside, felt female.
I have seen men on Lupron, removed from their male hormones. A man much like your burly macho freeper self, reduced to weeping at car commercials. A lot of what makes you such a manly guy is your hormones. Sometimes you see a heavyset older man on TV who has a “feminine” look to his face? Like that man who is on the left in the Triple Crown TV coverage (Costas on the right)? That is a man who is becoming estrogen dominant. Hormones do amazing things.
I have seen a wife, totally uninterested in sex, and a rather laissez faire wife, take testosterone replacement enough to meet a normal female level, suddenly not just be interested in and enjoy sex with her husband, but literally feel like she was in love with him again. Suddenly getting excited to see him after the work day. She was herself SHOCKED that hormones can bring back love and interest. She always loved him but the “thrill was gone.” Correcting her T levels brought back the thrill. Need I tell you how thrilled her husband was??!
With that said, my perspective is different from all the 103 posts I have read. I think he is a helpless victim of a brain dysfunction. He tried for 60 years to live the way YOU ALL insist he should. And as a male, he achieved more manly stuff than most. You cannot deny that; none of you have won Olympic decathalons. Yet deep inside, he was about as happy as you would be if you were trapped in a life not your own.
Right now in Western Civ 2015, the solution to this illness is to allow / encourage the person to try life as the gender of their brain. About half the people are then happy doing so. The other half sometimes end up feeling worse, or at least not that a problem was solved.
The culture today is to be half-mocking, half-patronizing to these people’s bravery. Sometimes the very same individual will mock these transition people amongst his closest friends, and in public be expansively supportive.
We may need a better solution to people whose brain gender doesn’t match their genitals. I have no idea what it is. But I will respect this new Caitlin as Bruce’s best attempt to fix his illness. I truly don’t have a better solution he hasn’t tried.
I’m sad that my beloved FR has ONLY full on mocks and put downs, with not one post of kindness toward someone, a conservative himself, with a brain problem that he couldn’t help.
Wouldn’t it be great if Wheeties put that pic on their box? /sarc
“There are videos included in the column”
And here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1469&v=V3uATqvcvG8
I understand s(he) still has a pecker.
AKA, Bruce “Trans” Jenner
BTW, the right makeup artists could make any of us look like that for a day. It means nothing. And if Bruce wants to maintain that look, it will take an army of personal assistants.
Personally it really shouldn't concern me if somebody wants to indulge in a fantasy about being the opposite sex. But this constant media attention this guy is getting is really annoying. Especially now that he is winning awards and other plaudits for being a "hero."
So you can now be a hero for pretending to be the opposite sex? To me, a hero is somebody who rescues somebody else out of a burning building. Not a man who dresses in women's clothing.
Also, I should mention that just a couple months ago, this man was involved in a car accident that resulted in the death of a woman. Apparently he was not determined to be at fault but the fact is that his car was the one that knocked this woman's car into oncoming traffic and he is now involved in a civil suit.
But we've heard almost nothing about that incident from the media as they continue to swoon and gush over his "transformation." Since the unfortunate fatal accident, it's been full speed ahead with this sex change nonsense.
Not a fetish, rather either a psychiatric diagnosis or thought by many to be the result of neurological damage. Also has sexual overtones.
It would appear not all body parts are created equal, so I'd suggest the solution will be to normalize the procedure. How far down that path is amputation on demand, for sexually dysfunctional patients where the cause is the possession of two, rather than one leg. Sadly it's my understanding that the emerging research seems to show that sex change doesn't increase happiness in many (majority?) of cases, and that sexual preference often is for members of the former, now same, sex.
Does he have an appointment with Dr. I. Kutcherpeckeroff?
Just mentally ill.
This is just bad science, incorrect science.
No woman is born with a man’s brain. No man is born with a woman’s brain. Their genetics are XX for female, XY for male.
What they COULD be suffering from, is a female body who’s hormone levels are abnormal, and are either creating too much testosterone (for a woman) and too little testosterone/too much estrogen for a man.
Hormonal imbalances can be medically dealt with, and to la lesser extent, through diet as well. For women eating more soy and other estrogen-mimicking substances, and for men, avoiding soy and other estrogen-mimicking substances.
“Opinion” in the headline should be “Fact” as no amount of chopping will turn XY to XX.
In the 70s, I thought MASH with Jamie Farr as Klinger was funny and never would be accepted here. I guess I was wrong...
That's a guy dressed up like a sheila!
Caitlyn Jenner is like the mascot for the economy. It can be whatever you say it is!
SO WHAT IS THE FREAKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MY HYPOTHETICAL & BRUCE JENNER ?
Don’t know why fox/fox business thinks it’s necessary to keep putting this freak in my face.
Excellent.