Rant #1,451: He Is a She and She Is a He

Yes, it is time to chime into the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner situation.

You didn't think I would stay silent on these goings on for long, did you?

I held back a day or two, simply because I wanted to see what else transpired, and every day, it is getting weirder and weirder.

Bruce Jenner, Olympic hero, TV and media maven, has seemingly not been happy being a male for virtually his whole life. He achieves stardom in spite of it, marries several times, has what amounts to a basketball team of kids, and somehow finds himself part of the Khardashian clan, the most annoying people on earth.

Approaching 70 years of age, he decides it is time to morph from male to female, because he cannot reach the comfort level that he has yearned for his whole life living as a male.

So he undergoes his transformation on the national stage.

Look, we know there are people like this in the world we live in. Somehow, their genes get screwed up, they are born in the wrong sex, and some of them have psychological problems because of it, and I guess, some learn to live with it, others are tortured by it.

There were people like this before Jenner. Heck, the first such person was Christine Jorgensen in the 1950s, and if you think the current situation is causing worldwide chaos, from what I understand, Jorgensen's transformation from man to woman made the current situation pale by comparison.

Jorgensen, who just happened to be from the town in which I currently live on Long Island, was a war veteran who decided to be a guinea pig for Jenner and all who followed him/her. He was supposedly the first transsexual, lived a life as something of a celebrity until the world got bored with him/her, and died several years ago as something of a recluse.

But when you are the first of anything, you blaze the trail for others. And then we have Dr. Renee Richards.

Richards, not only a doctor but also a tennis pro, caused quite a stir when changing over from he to her. Tennis pros did not know how to classify this person, because she had been a he, and still possessed athleticism usually found in males, not females.

So would Richards compete as a male, or a female, on the pro tennis circuit?

This caused quite a stir, but that, too, died down after awhile, and Richards was able to live out her life as a female in relative solitude.

Now we come to the current case.

Bruce Jenner has decided to live out his change from male to female Caitlyn on the world stage. He has learned a lot from his association with the Khardashians, and that is that no scandal is bad scandal, and everything is fair game if you want it to be.

I personally have no problem with Jenner doing what he is doing. If that is the way he/she feels comfortable, that is fine.

However, although I am no doctor, I would say he, and Jorgensen, and Richards, and others like them, probably have some type of severe psychological problems. They all probably went through some type of therapy, and nothing could help other than going this drastic route.

My only qualms about this is that 1) Jenner is doing this on the world stage, and 2) we are now being told by the PC Police that we should think of this as "normal" activity and accept these people lock, stock and barrel in their "seamless" transition from male to female.

Sorry, I don't buy either one.

This is something that really should be a private matter, but yes, I understand that Jenner is a celebrity, has been one since his Olympic glory, and it would be very difficult to hide from the spotlight.

But I also feel that Jenner is overdoing it a bit, and the media is picking up on this as "the new sensation."

His Vanity Fair cover is just part of the media machine to almost legitimize him and others who have gone through this procedure, even though Jenner admits that he hasn't gone through the entire procedure, and has no intention of doing so.

He still likes women, and yes, he has the hardware to prove it.

That is his choice, but allowing himself to be exploited like this is supposed to make us, as a society, want to put our arms around people like this and say that "we understand," to accept them fully.

No, sorry, in my eyes it doesn't work that way.

No matter what the PC Police might have us believe, these people continue to be anomalies. Some have called them freaks. I won't do that, but I won't call them "normal," either.

To go this route to achieve maximum satisfaction out of their lives is something I don't understand, cannot understand, and to me, I can accept the choice these people make, but I cannot, and will not, list them as being "normal."

They are not.

The PC Police have even given out the proper rules and regulations and etiquette about how to greet and address such people so as not to "offend" them.

I am not so much offended by them as I am offended by the way we must treat everything with such kid gloves nowadays.

Look, whether Jenner lives out his life as a male, a female, or some combination of the two is not of my concern. Unlike ESPN, I am not giving him an award for being such a trailblazer.

And how did he dupe the women he married for so long? Did they marry his image, or him? Kris Jenner basically says she was duped. I say these women also need some type of psychological counseling themselves. Did they know of his feelings? They married him and had his kids anyway?

Sick.

But the exploitive nature of all of this, and Jenner's apparent need to be exploited, just completely turns me off.

Is he a she or is she a he or some combination?

I could care less, but a somewhat "normal" transition for these unfortunate people ... I just don't know.