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Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes
Date: 2015-08-14
The woman's Day celebrations kicked in with complete gusto.
I am always kind of taken aback with the concept that we need a day or even a month to celebrate the fairer gender status. I just feel that women in general can celebrate their greatness; we don't need an excuse for that.
However this year our status has been shaken slightly. I guess for me personally it was the whole Caitlyn Jenner story and really this is a very personal thing for me.
Having been witness to the medical gender changes when I travelled abroad, I can honestly say that in many ways, I have been desensitised and felt that it was part of survival for the poverty stricken minority - used as a sex perversion.
Caitlyn Jenner changed all that. I don't know who was the biggest attraction, the man that's becoming a woman or the football player in the red sports coat and blond mop top who looked like a clown.
For me, Caitlyn Jenner is an artificial construct - a triumph of cosmetic surgery - but at age 65 how can "it" lay claim to womanhood? What does this parody of womanhood know about being a woman.
Caitlyn Jenner, as the man Bruce, appears to have coveted the glamour that comes, for some women, with fabulous dresses and hair on special occasions, and being famous! Even these women have normal female lives - but not Caitlyn. Caitlyn is still Bruce with male genitalia and no clue to what it means to go through life as a woman!
I just feel that maybe our society is so bereft of admirable role models that we focus on this new Kardashian?
Look I hate sounding righteous but I do not believe people "born in the wrong body" should be forced to live their lives conforming to the gender roles society "expects" of their birth gender.
They should be free to express themselves or surgically, medically, hormonally alter themselves as they see fit. Gender Dysphoria isn't a joke, it can cause serious problems for people, leading to drug abuse and even suicide.
Let people live how they please, but at the same time, let's call trans people what they are: trans. They are neither here nor there. That may sound to some like "nothing" but it shouldn't be regarded that way.
They are just another manifestation of humankind, no more or less valid than "normal" males or females. I just object to the politically correct angle that seems to demand everyone abide by the identified gender as though it were the full and actual gender.
As a woman - I simply dislike someone claiming to be female who has not walked a mile in my shoes
In my humble opinion Bruce has shown us that being a woman is nothing more than boobs, makeup and the right outfit.
The fact is most people are born with either of the male or female set of chromosomes. I do not want asmallminority to dictate what the rest of us believe.
I am not a woman because I 'feel' like a woman. I am a woman because it is a biological fact. Is that so wrong?
To all the women out there! Lets celebrate our greatness not just in August but every day of the year.