Have you seen a meme with a picture of some ignored news story with a snarky complaint about how it's not being covered like the Caitlin Jenner story?
Have you seen a meme with a picture of some ignored news story with a snarky complaint about how it's not being covered like the Caitlin Jenner story? I've seen THREE of these fucking bullshit memes today, one with a double amputee soldier, one with an African solar energy provider, and one with a "good" cop. What are they really about? I'll tell you what they're about, they're a way to denigrate the LGBT community's ongoing struggle with bigotry and hate in this country. They're a way to sneer at the incredible difficulty any transgender person faces as they move to the gender they prefer. It's a way for self righteous pricks to behave in the same sanctimonious and somewhat creepy manner as Mike Huckabee who says he would've been trans in high school if it meant he could shower with girls (which, by the way, is simply perversion which is typical of right wing religious bigots). Just because Jenner is a celebrity doesn't mean that what she is doing is not news worthy, it most assuredly is. She is very publicly doing what tens thousands of people are doing privately while facing Republicunts voting to prevent them using their selected gender's bathroom, to allow them to be fired for being trans, to allow them to be denied housing, healthcare, prescriptions, or service, and more. The story of a celebrity going through this change in a public manner doesn't negate other news stories and those other news stories should not negate her story. Her story informs people that are unaware of the difficulties of changing gender and gives trans people someone telling their story. If you really want to bitch about the news, pick something that actually doesn't have any merit or value as news to mock, like the paid advertisements posing as news that so many local outlets show daily because they don't have the budget to actually report news, or the "feel good" stories that eat up newscasts' limited time (firemen rescuing a kitten isn't news, goddammit)? People are picking on Jenner because it's easy to hate on the trans woman, that's why, and if you don't pick up on this element of those memes well now you have no excuse.