Last night as I was watching "Bruce Jenner: The Interview" and I took some notes...
Why is Bruce Jenner being such a jackass to Diane Sawyer?
"When I told my mother she was like 'Oh my God, Bruce did I do this to you?'" he says this very animated and I can't keep but imagining a 90ish year old woman talking like Kim Kardashian...
He goes on about how he's skinny and his Russian competitor is fat and he's won that race too...I mean, when did Bruce become Regina George? Is butter a carb?
"For now, I will go by Her..." --Shutup Bruce, we all know you are going by Brucella...
The fact that he is a republican is more shocking to me than the fact the is claiming to be a woman for some reason...
I didn't get much more notes, because this interview really was not as interesting as I thought it was going to be. Lesbihonest, We all knew Bruce was a little ummm odd anyway...
But my final takeaway from the interview, besides Bruce Jenner is an asshole...is that I am somewhat upset, I am not a hardcore feminist in any way but I could not help but notice that this interview set women back.
The problem is that the interview reduced the woman experience to putting on dresses and feeling "pretty."
Bruce Jenner loves the idea of a social construct of being a woman. He likes to put on dresses and he likes to feel pretty--because of this, he believes he has a woman's soul.
A social construct is how society views a set of people.
For example, it is a social construct that deems that men must be stoic and emotionless.
It is a social construct that women like to dress up in dresses and feel pretty as well as being an angel in the streets but a freak in the sheets.
I need to note that not all women like to dress up and feel pretty, that does not define a woman.
The social construct of women and the woman experience are not the same either. So much of the woman experience rests on biology. Excuse my being crude, but Bruce will never ever know what it's like to have a period-Most women can relate to having an accident at least once sometime in their lives in public; and many carry pads/tampons just in case them or a friend (or even a stranger) have an accident in a public area. It is humiliating and it is the universal woman experience. And most women feel empathetic when this happens to another woman. Additionally he will never have to endure the awkward moment of purchasing one of the items mentioned above from a teenage boy from behind a counter at a convenience store. Nor will he ever know what it like to start crying over something tiny because the chemicals in his brain are telling him to. And lastly, he will never be able to biologically give birth to a child, which is a miracle because you are a co-creator with God.
And lets talk more about that social construct I mentioned above. There are wonderful positives about being a woman such as being in touch with your emotions and being able to fully express yourself whether that be in fashion or something else. These are the positives that Bruce is gravitating towards and thereby convincing him he has a "woman" soul. But he will never have to experience the "Angel/Whore dichotomy" (you are a prude if you are not experienced sexually and you are a whore if you are) or that if he sounds too smart he will intimidate his boyfriend/husband. Nor will he ever have to experience the competition and comparing of body image that many women have to face on a daily basis.
I know that this blog post is pretty negative, but these are just the basic struggles that women have to endure (I love being a woman btw!). So it confuses me when someone says they feel like a woman, because they have no idea whats it's like to be a woman. Just because they love the social construct of being a woman, does not mean they have a woman soul. Even if Bruce were to get breast implants and have the gender reassignment surgery, he would NOT have the experience of a woman, but that of a transgender.
This works the other way too...Just because I gravitate towards things that society deems to be masculine does not mean I have a man's soul. I have no idea what the male experience is, so how can I say I feel like a man?
This brings me to my last point...souls do NOT have gender. The soul is your spirit, it is eternal and it is the life that inhabits your body. When we die, our body dies but our soul lives on. The purpose of having a gender is for biological reproductive purposes. If a soul is not biological then how on earth can it have a gender?
Anyway, my final-final thoughts are that any man that had to endure living with the Kardashians for two decades would not come out at least a little unscathed. I mean, ughhh can you even imagine the estrogen and the desperation particles that are polluting the air in their house?
***Sexual orientation and transgender are completely different topics.
