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 ...............
Conservative voices are not permitted freedom of speech, and let's face it folks, the only freedom of speech which counts is the freedom of speech of the airwaves.
If it's not on television, it doesn't exist. You might as well be speaking to the walls of your closet in your home. Nobody is going to hear you.
The purpose of speech is to influence others, and we are denied that ability because Liberals monopolize the means of broadcasting to a larger audience.
It is no wonder they are winning, and they will continue winning because no voice in opposition is ever permitted to reach the public.
Our future depends on the destruction of this existing system of monopolistic control of the airwaves.
All the tech companies have embraced evil. Especially those situated near modern day Sodom, AKA "San Fransisco."
Jenner has lost his marbles!
But not his “package”...yet.
Transvestites used to be funny. Divine was a hoot. Now, they are boring and stupid. Castration is always a bad thing, guys!
But the same culture.
Demi thanked him for showing his authentic self? Haha. Really. Of course she would think all the plastic surgery still kept him authentic.
If he was really authentic, he would accept being the hideous, large woman that he would be without all of the enhancements.
Why are all these feminists not concerned about the negative image he is sending to other women? He should accept the way he would look as a woman.
And yes....the penis has to go!
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold medalist and Wheaties box hero, turned himself into an infomercial for the plastic surgery and gender reassignment industries named Caitlyn and the people swoon.
Whoa...didn't see that coming...but I probably should have. And I think I'm actually afraid of what comes next.
Our society looks and feels like the before picture of that American woman in the South African wildlife park taking a picture of the approaching lioness with the car window down, may she RIP.
Good article. That’s what I find so disturbing about this, not so much one mentally ill man looking for publicity, but the hectoring and punishment of those who dare to disagree with what he’s done.
Imagine if Bruce Jenner didn’t admit he’s a republican. The worship is only tempered by the over ruling hatred of all things republican by the pervert media.
Snore...!
Perfect comment.
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