What does it mean to be Caitlyn?

[KamaAina]

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d78a-What-does-it-mean-to-be-Caitlyn

ON MONDAY June 1, we experienced Bruce Jenner’s big reveal. Vanity Fair magazine released its July cover image of the former athlete and reality star formerly known as Bruce Jenner, with the catchily alliterative headline “Call me Caitlyn.”...

Jenner is not a “gender outlaw” breaking down boundaries and a mechanism for positive change. Jenner represents the status quo, in opposition to the positive, progressive force and changes that decades of women’s suffrage and activism have fought for.

We can view this image of Jenner as being not “a man becoming a woman” (itself a contentious and somewhat counterfactual statement) but as “a man becoming a man’s idea of what a woman should be.”

This is writ large over the Vanity Fair cover: an idealised body is presented clothed only in lingerie, the makeup is done to perfection, and every flaw is magically Photoshopped out of existence. Pandering to the male gaze, the body language is coy, seductive, submissive. This is not liberation, this is not revolution, this is not life-affirming. This is the crass stereotyping of what it means to be a woman, meeting every reactionary, culturally conservative ideal of what a woman should be — passive, objectified, dehumanised.

[yuiyoshida]

1. I am really frustrated as there was

an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle and I can't post it because you need to be a paid member to read it. The only reason I know about it, is because I actually got to read the Newspaper while waiting to be seen by a doctor..

This seems to be a new trend, and if it catches on, we won't be able to post anything of importance because unless you subscribe you are SOL!