I
remember when Bruce Jenner won the Olympic Decathlon in 1976. He was handsome and photogenic – a national
hero and instant celebrity. The gold
medal winner’s picture would soon grace boxes of Wheaties, at that time one of
the ultimate testaments to an athlete’s status.
But that was also pretty much the pinnacle of Jenner’s fame. Since then he has been a b-list actor, making
a living mainly off his celebrity.
After
two failed marriages, Jenner married his third wife, the former Kris Kardashian
(once married to the famous lawyer, Robert Kardashian) in 1991. Since 2007 he has been involved in the TV
reality series “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” This show has come to be the poster child for
how to milk a dollar out of celebrity.
Jenner’s stepdaughters, Kim and Khloe, have become famous (or notorious)
for their shameless marketing of themselves.
Last year, after a period of
separation, Kris filed for divorce from Bruce Jenner citing “irreconcilable
differences.” For months prior to this
the celebrity press had been speculating on Bruce’s confused sexual
identity. Images of him in makeup and
dresses had been circulating, receiving obsessive attention from publications
and television shows which make their living off publicizing the bizarre and
weird. So it came as no surprise (in
fact, I believe it was all a carefully orchestrated “coming out”), when Jenner
did his already infamous interview with a sycophantic Diane Sawyer and shared
that he is really a woman trapped in a man’s body. He declared he has now decided to live his
life as a woman.
If anyone needed proof that this
country, both morally and logically, has driven off a cliff, this has to be
it. A fawning press and LGBTQ advocates
have been incessantly praising Jenner’s willingness to reveal his identity
struggles and his “trans” formation.
Tweets from his children and stepchildren revealing their support for
their Dad (Mom?) are being published to show how nobly and lovingly the family
is reacting under the circumstances.
Conveniently, and I believe far from accidentally, it’s been announced
that an eight part documentary is to be filmed recording the events in Jenner’s
transition. This two-bit former athlete,
who hasn’t accomplished a thing of significance since he cashed in on his
Olympic fame, is being held up as an example of honesty and courage to
all. He is being put forward as living
proof of the kind of openness and transparency and acceptance this society
needs to evince in dealing with transgender individuals.
Please allow me to posit a
contrarian take. Bruce Jenner is living
proof, not of nobility and courage, but of the depths to which the desperate
will descend in order to keep their name in the tabloids and the money rolling
in. A heartbreakingly dysfunctional and
miserable man is using and being used by an immoral and cynical press to push
an LGBTQ agenda that has been searching for a poster boy (girl?) for some time. This pathetic sixty five year old has-been
stands to make millions off his new found notoriety.
What we’re also seeing in this
farce, I believe, is another determined attack by the God-haters,
Christian-despisers, and anti-moralists who have come out of the woodwork in
the last six years. They now feel safe
to spew their venom and vilify anyone who would challenge their sick and
twisted views on morality and relationships.
Their defense and glorifying of Jenner isn’t about defending a man who
is “coming out.” It is about the
opportunity to sneer at and denigrate anyone who would criticize the LGBTQ
lifestyle. When an aging man in a dress
with makeup on his face is made a symbol of a movement, what does that say
about the movement?
What kind of alternate universe do
these people inhabit? Jenner has been
married to three women. At least one of
those marriages ended because of an affair he was having with the woman who
would become his second wife. He has
fathered four children. Does that really
sound like a man who has struggled all his life with his sexual identity? Are we really supposed to buy into the fact
that this man who lived for decades as a heterosexual wasn’t? Really?
Just because he says so (and we’re supposed to conveniently forget the
last thirty years of his life or we’re bigoted)?
How long are these LGBTQ moral
terrorists going to be allowed to have it both ways? On the one hand, they’re whining that gays
are born with homosexual desires and they can’t help themselves. We narrow-minded Biblical moralists are
denying them the right to follow their natural inclinations. But on
the other hand, they are holding up as heroes examples of individuals who
clearly have made choices in regard to sexual lifestyles. All the posturing and pleading in the world
will not undo the fact that Bruce Jenner is a straight male who, for whatever variety
of bizarre reasons, has chosen to comport himself as a female. Bill DeBlasio’s wife, Chirlane, was a
self-declared lesbian, until she married DeBlasio and they have since had two
children together and appear to be in a happy relationship. Both Bruce Jenner and Chirlane DeBlasio have
made clear sexual choices that are contradictory to those by which they had
lived for years. Both are proof that
one’s sexual expression is a choice, not a force of nature which cannot be
overcome.
I’m sure over the next few months
we are going to be shown and told, ad nauseum, about the grace and character of
Bruce Jenner as he “transitions” from male to female. Any criticism of this bizarre rite will be
met with horror and derision. Deviancy
will be defended and upheld as honorable and good. Any attack upon it as narrow-minded and
mean. The LGBTQ crowd will embrace their
darling and Bruce Jenner will have a new, and very lucrative, source of income. The “normalization” of the abnormal will
continue apace.
If it weren’t so blasphemously grotesque,
the whole charade would be laughable. However,
it is very difficult to find any humor in it.
The unholy alliance that has been formed between those who are willing
to debase themselves for cash, and those with an agenda to promote, goes on. As this tour of the moral sewer continues and
even picks up steam, I figure an incest based reality show is just around the
corner. After all, who’s to judge,
right??? And if there’s a few bucks to
be made on the side…
Dan Rouse
