caitlyn jenner Archives - Matt Ralston's Blog

Clothes Don’t Make The Man, Or Woman

Dec

8

2015

It occurred to me recently that I rarely see transgendered women (a woman who was born a man and became a woman) wearing gender neutral clothing. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, maybe I just don’t notice. Yet I wonder to what extent a person’s gender identity is determined by their clothing, or how clothing really matters ...

Is Caitlyn Jenner Setting A Healthy Standard?

Jul

16

2015

I couldn’t help but notice something was leaking out of Caitlyn Jenner’s nose during her ESPY speech, which was able to successfully cast Jenner as an activist for the trans community, when in fact this cookie cutter speech, a cheap promotional stunt on the part of ESPN to harness the Kardashian name and attain ratings for their ...

Jenner/Dolezal Comparisons Pass The Smell Test

Jun

15

2015

After Rachel Dolezal resigned as chairperson of Spokane’s NAACP chapter, a job roughly equivalent to that of the head of the Harlem’s division of the North American Country Line Dancing Association, it spurned many conversations about race and gender identity. The consensus I got was that gender and race are both a “Construct” meaning they’re just labels placed on ...

Are Republicans Taking Advantage of Insane Liberals?

Jun

14

2015

I hate to admit it, but sometimes conservatives are right. I don’t confound the term conservative with Republican, because actual conservatives don’t lobby against gay marriage or condone the NSA’s spying or prop up banks that are too big to fail because they are too busy skinning a deer to care about the stupid PC terminology they taught you in ...

Caitlyn Jenner Proves Your Soul Has A Price

Jun

5

2015

The reaction surrounding Bruce Jenner’s public becoming of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair was met with the cries associated with the hailing of a new Saint. The conventional narrative was that Jenner had ‘found her authentic self’ as the superbly well adjusted Demi Moore stated, as a typical example: Thank you @Caitlyn_Jenner for sharing the gift ...