If it looks like a duck

This Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner thing has been pretty entertaining. Not going to lie, when I first heard about Bruce looking to switch sides midgame, I wondered if he was just pulling a stunt to get some of that attention his step-kids were getting. Considering how long this has gone on, and how invested Jenner is in the situation, I'm going have to go with it being legit.

The latest controversy is Jenner winning the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Many people are throwing a fit about that. Some made up completely fictional stories about her getting the award in the place of an injured soldier. Trust me when I say that us veterans love being used as ammo in your debates. Almost makes it worth getting injured. Others have made whole lists of people who should have won instead. Others still are just lining up the insults to fire away.

Now in all honesty, at first I wasn't really biting on the whole award thing either. It kinda felt like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. How about we give it to people who actually went through what the award was designed for, not just for what the potential of what they might go through? But at the end of the day these awards aren't mine to give. If the people in charge of them want to give it to Justin Bieber, that's their problem, not mine. I had never heard of the Arthur Ashe award until this spectacle.

But as time went on, my feelings on it started to change and I couldn't really nail down why. At first I thought it was because the groups I saw fighting the hardest against it were people I didn't really want to associate with. But after a talk with Jonathan Ester, I nailed down what it was. The hate and the rage that came with Jenner winning that award ended up proving on the backend that she deserved it. The fact that it caused such vehement rage from people showed there is still one hell of a problem with transphobia in the US and beyond.

You can see it even in childish things like calling Caitlyn "he" or "him" still as a pointed insult. Think about the morals these people are standing on. "Jenner wants me to refer to him as a woman, but fuck that. It is against my something to do that!!". What the hell? If some straight up dude asked me to refer to him as a she, whatever homie. That's your deal and I don't care enough to argue with you on this. Hell, when I lived in the South I had people throw actual fits by calling them by their legal first name rather than the super cool nickname they went by. I had to argue with people to write their legal name on official paperwork. "No dude, you can't put Maverick on your I-9. Come the fuck on". But I played their reindeer games otherwise, because why do I care if James wants everyone to call him Jimbo. Or Charlie doesn't want to be called Charles because that's his dad's name. I don't have an religious exemption against nicknames, just like I don't care about calling a trans person by whatever pronouns they want.

The funny part is this is bringing about a "counter-offended" group. Those who pretend calling a trans person by their prefered pronouns is the trans person being the offended ones. They don't realize they are the ones who are really being unreasonably offended ones. I can't think of any religion that bans calling a woman a he if that's what she wants. Practically all of them have something about not being a dick though. So which part are you going to follow? If you really don't care about these issues, you wouldn't be making these ridiculous stands for no apparent reason.


Show where we talked about this. View at your own risk. I did threaten to molest Puppet Master: