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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on June 04, 2015, 01:11:21 PM
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cali (102,095 posts)
Caitlyn Jenner and the perpetuation of ridiculous physical standards for women
this is what's been bothering me about the whole Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair fawning. I haven't been able to put it into words, but I've found an op-ed that does:
A NEW goddess has emerged like Botticelli’s Venus rising from the sea. Caitlyn Jenner gazes out from Annie Leibovitz’s July Vanity Fair cover, bare save for a satin bodysuit. Her auburn curls tumble over alabaster shoulders. Can she really be the avatar of personal freedom and self-expression the media claims her to be?
Caitlyn Jenner’s transition is more than a private matter. It is a commercial spectacle on an enormous scale, revealing some disturbing truths about what we value and admire in women.
Inside the magazine, Ms. Jenner poses in skintight dresses, a cinched black lace corset and two different gold evening gowns — the kind of outfits favored by her voluptuous stepdaughter, Kim Kardashian. She lounges on a sofa, peers into mirrors or reclines with her head thrown back, eyes closed. In keeping with the classic iconography of female stardom, Ms. Jenner appears languid and glamorous, her body still and on display rather than performing any activity.
Ms. Jenner is 65 years old, but Caitlyn “codes†many decades younger. Her features are tiny and doll-like, her lips plumped, her skin lineless. Even her new chosen first name feels bizarrely girlish, conjuring more a college student, or maybe a sixth Kardashian sister, than a grandmother.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/the-price-of-jenners-heroism.html?_r=0
Welcome to the land of Unintended Consequences, DU Hags (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026778172)
Not only do you have to compete with better-looking women for men, but now you have to compete with old white men who decide they want to be women. Maybe Jenner is gay...maybe not. Either way, Cali, he looks better than any of you DU sea hags.
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If the bitter old hag didn't think of Bruce Jenner as a 'her', but rather as he is, a deranged 'him' with enough money to have his body mutilated in support of his delusion, she wouldn't feel threatened by him.
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The pix I've seen of Jenner -and I have NOT sought them out! - creep me out, but not because of any stereotypes of beauty! (Where's the barfing emoticon when you need it?!)
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All that purple prose up there ignores the fact that the entire spread was heavily airbrushed.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we have the next shiny object?
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What did they think the ultimate outcome would be when they pushed normalizing transgenders? These dummies never look beyond the present.
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Reply #5...
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102636.msg1290749#msg1290749 (http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102636.msg1290749#msg1290749)
OP
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102645.msg1290689#msg1290689 (http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102645.msg1290689#msg1290689)
Talk about a bitter old feminist...
Reply #3
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102645.msg1290689#msg1290689 (http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=102645.msg1290689#msg1290689)
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The pix I've seen of Jenner -and I have NOT sought them out! - creep me out, but not because of any stereotypes of beauty! (Where's the barfing emoticon when you need it?!)
I believe that this is the one you're looking for:
:puke:
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I believe that this is the one you're looking for:
:puke:
I knew it was there, but skillfully missed it.
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....and Little Red Riding Hood says to grandma Jenner...."What a big clit you have."
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....and Little Red Riding Hood says to grandma Jenner...."What a big clit you have."
Lol Johnny :).
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If the bitter old hag didn't think of Bruce Jenner as a 'her', but rather as he is, a deranged 'him' with enough money to have his body mutilated in support of his delusion, she wouldn't feel threatened by him.
I think the retouch work on its photo shoot may have been the first case ever of a digital airbrush wearing out.
And even then, it looks creepy to me.
Especially when you know it has a package under those dresses.
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Time for another check
(http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac32/gobucksnumbers/cosby_zpsdcg521hu.jpg)
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I think the retouch work on its photo shoot may have been the first case ever of a digital airbrush wearing out.
And even then, it looks creepy to me.
Especially when you know it has a package under those dresses.
Bruce Jenner has that Jamie Gumb look going on:
(http://36.media.tumblr.com/0d9fa2de188dd888bcfce02eecd36a93/tumblr_mlsf0zCWRK1s7lm6wo1_r1_500.jpg)
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^That guy became Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on one of my favorite TV shows.
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^That guy became Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on one of my favorite TV shows.
Ah, a Monk fan!