Out of Touch.

Bosom friends!

Yesterday's post was about the mighty Kardashian dynasty.

Today I will keep the magic alive by discussing one of their clan members even though he is not genetically part of that descent.

I am referring to Bruce Jenner.

Tabloids and gossip TV shows have been bullying the former Olympian Champion for months now.
It feels like all of the media has turned into this spiteful and bossy mean girl on steroids.

Feel free to type on your Google search Bruce Jenner Transgender and you will see with what kind of eagerness the media is torturing him.

In Touch magazine.

According to the tabloids Bruce Jenner is ready for the world to see who he really is.
The reality star, 65, has taped an interview and is currently filming an unscripted E! reality series of his own about his “desire to look like a woman and live as one,” reports Us Weekly.
I don't know about you but I consider Us Weekly as reliable as the Bible.

Kim Kardashian West sat down with “Entertainment Tonight” to lend support to what she referred to as her stepfather’s “journey,” explaining, “Bruce should tell his story his way. I think everyone goes through things in life, but I do think that that story and what Bruce is going through, I think he’ll share whenever the time is right.” Thank you Kim, your pearls of wisdom are as bright as stars in the sky.
Someone who has been less encouraging is ex-wife Kris. Apparently when they meet in the 90's Bruce was already preparing for the transition but Kris convinced him to change his mind.
Yes, Kris is quite the momager with the tact of Godzilla but I don't think that anybody ever knows what goes on in a relationship unless they are actually part of it.

The development of Bruce's reality has gone as far as the head of publicity at E! planning a meeting with GLAAD about how to handle such a sensitive subject.
But the project is not far enough along to have a title, premiere date or episode order.
Allegedly.

As blatant racism and homophobia are becoming less and less acceptable in the media, transphobia has become the norm.

The way we handle trans issues in the media is appalling, and Bruce Jenner’s magazine cover is only one small example of that.

When trans people are invited to do interviews, they are grilled on their genitalia and asked things like, “What made you want to become a woman?”
Wendy Williams, while interviewing transgender Laverne Cox asked her if her breasts were real. Seriously woman?  Poor Laverne gracefully answered the idiotic question but I am sure she would have loved to rip that silly cow's weave off with the rage of a Valkyrie.

Until trans people commit suicide we don't recognize them as human beings who deserve respect. And by then, it’s too late.

Media, can we get our shit together? By attaching Jenner and his real or not transition, we are diminishing all of the other actual transgenders journey to their true identity.
Can we all sit down with some trans folks and maybe figure out how they would like to be written about, interviewed, and represented?

We can do better than this.
Molly Haskell has written a very tactful book abut her brother's transition. It's called My Brother My Sister: A Story of Transformation. The book begins in 2005, as John Haskell, a 59-year-old married financial adviser, tells his older sister that he has “gender dysphoria” and wants to become female. It describes both of their journeys to acceptance in a very delicate yet grounded way.
Bosom friends give it a try!

The crazy part of it all is that we have gone from the TIME magazine cover featuring a beautifully airbrushed Laverne Cox to In Touch magazine literally painting Jenner's face in a very amateurish and clown like way. I understand that the two publications are not to be compared but TIME is as available as In touch and that is rather unsettling.

Hopefully, in the near future, we can look back on things like Bruce Jenner’s In Touch cover, collectively cringe, and marvel at how ignorant we used to be.

Ciao for now.