One of Yours.

Big Surprise Tonight*: Bruce Jenner Comes Out as a ... Republican!

When asked about Barack Obama addressing LGBT rights in his State of the Union, the 65-year-old former Olympic athlete said that didn’t affect him much.

“I’ve always been more on the conservative side,” Jenner said.

Sawyer, looking shocked, asked if he identifies as a Republican, to which Jenner answered, “Yes.”

How do you like them apples?
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* I don't watch trash tv, but I do read the Internet and skim the stories...

The man sounds megalomaniacal. His "Cause in Life" ... “This is why God put me on this earth…to deal with this issue.”

Jenner confirmed that he has not had gender reassignment surgery yet, but it could be down the line.

“I would do it so quietly no one would ever know.”

Maybe next, with lines like that, he could try his hand at being a comedian: The E! series also announced today that Bruce(?) will star in a gender-transitioning reality show set to premiere in July.

My take? A lot of young athletes miss out on an awful lot of early life, because of time spent in the pool, or on the track. A lot of them... (can we say it?) for that reason, are just plain dumb.

I wonder too, if years of recreationally taking hormones affects the brain, the way taking steroids affects the mind and body.

Let me just say, between the Kardashian crowd and the attention-seeking, I don't think this personal story will turn out well for him, once the spotlight dims and he has to simply live with him/herself, cameras off.

Perhaps what we have here, is an attention whore, which all transgenders clearly are not... (and which, of course, even non-transgendered people can be. Like with drugs, I think as your tolerance builds up, these types of addicts resort to wilder, and odder, ways of seeking attention...)

Somebody who loves him ought to pull Bruce(?) aside, like you do a typical teenager who is down in the dumps with worry over something trivial and offer this advice: "While it no doubt means the world to you right now, the truth is... the world is so big, it really is not concerned with the trivial details of your little life, when in the grand scheme of things, nobody cares about this as much as you."

Privacy, I think, is something he'll come to regret, one day, casting aside... Call it a hunch.
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** Something you think might be weighing just as heavy on his conscience -- the killing of the woman in the traffic accident via his alleged vehicular negligence -- apparently was not discussed.

Nor is there anything online about whether Diane followed up and asked him if he would prefer to see Jeb, Scott, Marco, Ted or Chris as his party's primary nominee. (I guess Bruce got to just speak freely on his own terms, without a decent interviewer asking any hard questions of him. Missed opportunity. What if God put him on earth not to spread the family-reveal details of his cross-dressing hobby over the years and where he intends to go with it, but to urge people to take more care behind the wheel, to avoid taking other people's lives? Like I say, I just don't see this life ending well, once the tv series' are through with him, and there is no more audience to compete for or entertain... Best of luck to you though, ma'am. Honestly.)


*** I think what makes Bruce Jenner here different from other transgendered people, like Jennifer Finney Boylan, say, is that the latter actually has a life, aside from her gender identification.

Jenny Boylan has published twelve books-- a collection of short stories, three adult novels, four YA books written under a pseudonym, two memoirs, and two middle grade books in the "Falcon Quinn" series. Her next book will be a memoir about "parenthood in two genders," STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU, scheduled for publication by Random House in 2013. Before coming to Colby College in 1988 she worked with the original cast of Saturday Night Live as managing editor of "American Bystander" magazine, and also served on the editorial staffs at Penguin Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton Inc. She was the Charles Walker Bassett "Professor of the Year" at Colby in 2000-01. Her academic concerns include fiction and nonfiction writing, American literature, and gender studies.  

Again, being a prized young athlete, Bruce likely did not develop any intellectual, social, artistic, or other life-related skills. Like an uneducated young actor with nothing to fall back on, I do believe that post-Olympics, Bruce has probably spend a good part of his life trying to define or "find" himself, to use the new-age lingo. Freed from the burden of having to actually work for living, he was able to create and pass through multiple families, all the while enjoying his hobby (cross-dressing) privately, before the Kardashian crowd taught him how to desire the warm glow of media attention, which he seems to shun... and then invite back into his intimate family life.

Again: it really might help to remember that despite the megalomania, you are just a person inside, Bruce. Just one individual, in a country and a world of many. Relax, dig deep, and try to find something to focus your life on, other than solely yourself, your family, or your attention-getting needs. (btw? All women are not into displaying themselves like that, which perhaps he never picked up on being around look-at-me! ladies, like Kris, Kim, Kylie and Kendall... Surely they're not in it for the money?)