Yawn. Last night, a former Olympian revealed a secret that we’ve all known for decades.
I just can’t see that it’s news. I mean, I understand that Bruce Jenner likes being in the spotlight but does it have any impact on you or me? How about the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow has filed for divorce?
I reckon the question of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance or the fact that !@#$%^Comcast and Time Warner Cable have abandoned their deal (for now) (until regulator and congressional scrutiny returns to Bruce Jenner) is a lot more important.
Bottom line? If Dave Pfaff of West Underwear, Pennsylvania, tried to get to Diane Sawyer with his lifelong struggle over gender, do you think Ms. Sawyer or we would give him the time of day?
So why should we do so for Bruce Jenner?
My thoughts? The “news” of a celeb coming out and openly undergoing sex reassignment can share space with the other news you obviously had no trouble finding. And presuming that everyone should be equally pissed off about non-celebrity gossip as you are is … well, over on farcebook, Stan is expressing unhappiness that people are too easily offended these days.
But aside from that, Jenner’s transition is important, news-wise, in that it is the start of the progression of changing the way people see sex-reassignment. As with all of the stuff where people were closeted and beat up or shunned when they were “exposed,” it’s important to change the way the public views it. Instead of being horrified (or even titillated, grossed-out, shocked), and instead of reacting with violence, we should all yawn. It shouldn’t be news.
For now, it is. And maybe it’s important for it to be news for some time to come. When it stops being exciting, well, we’ll stop seeing that in the news, won’t we?
Your anti-spam thing wants me to click the Banana. I have difficulty clicking only one in the bunch, however. I hope my comment gets accepted!
I had to crowbar it out of the moderation queue.
gekko: “And maybe it’s important for it to be news for some time to come. When it stops being exciting, well, we’ll stop seeing that in the news, won’t we?”
Yes.
Still, it saddens me that, with all the actual life-or-death events this week, we have a Congress that spends five months on baseball doping (dopes) and a mainstream media that has decided the National Enquirer approach is better than the Inquirer standard.
It’s because he’s related to those K-people. Yeech.
Wal-Mart? No. Oh, K-Mart people. Yeah, how the mighty have fallen.
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Just do what you’re told.
How come your not is telling me I made a duplicate comment? I never repeat myself myself.
Exactly.