Caitlyn Jenner has accepted a sporting accolade today, and brought everyone in the room, and all those watching to tears.
The embodiment of old-school Hollywood glamour, Caitlyn Jenner wowed EVERYONE today at the 2015 ESPY awards. The ESPYS are the ESPN Sports Awards, recognising Excellence in Sports Performance.
Jenner, former Olympic Decathlon champion and world record holder, was awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage.
Courage. Bravery. Something Jenner has proven she has in spades.
It was not her beautiful white gown that stole the show (but it does deserve a mention, because- WOW). Jenner’s speech was warm, funny, poignant, powerful and important.
Thanks to ABC News, you can watch it in full here (post continues after video):
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“The last few months have been a whirlwind of so many different experiences and emotions,” said Jenner. Jenner jokes about her tendency for putting herself in intense, high pressure situations. She references her family, and of course, her sporting achievements. “[But] I’ve never felt more pressure,” she said, “than I have in the last couple of months.” Particularly, she joked, the fashion pressure.
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I really think "Caitlyn" is entirely fake. We have seen again and again that the Kardashian/Jenner family are willing to pimp themselves and their children out for fame and money. I think it was Kendall, who the other day was walking down the road with her blouse flying open with no bra underneath. Kim has done a sex tape etc. I really don't think Kris Jenner is much different from a brothel madam who is making sure that her employees look sexy enough to make money, and I think her kids are like her employees. They don't know any better because this is how they have been raised. Think about it if any young girl in real life went walking down the street like Kendall did the other day, people would be questioning how well she had been parented. Not to say it is always the parents fault, but in this case when you see how ambitious Kris is it clearly is. As for Caitlyn/Bruce she/he is quite happy for all this to happen and lets Kris pimp out his kids and step kids. And before anyone shouts me down and says, oh it is just a young woman owning her sexuality, that is a load of rubbish, I have no problem with a woman or anyone for that matter playing out their sexuality in anyway that makes them happy, but it is obvious all of this is just exploitation. These poor young girls have been brought up to believe, and shown by example, that them being sexy is the only thing that matters about them and that's how they should make a buck.
Getting back to Jenner, I really think it is another publicity stunt. As a guy he was the most boring part of the family, and they are running out of extreme sex things to do, they have already had Kim and her sex tape, Kendall showing her knockers etc. What more can they do to shock? So they come up with the novel idea of Bruce changing gender. He hasn't had the sex surgery as yet so keep in mind that he can go back to Bruce when the ratings fall off. They do say he had other surgery, e.g facial surgery but how do we know that it isn't just makeup, because his face doesn't look so different to me. In any case these people are constantly having face lifts etc, so if he wants to go back to looking like Bruce that will be pretty simple to to have more surgery on his face, though I'm pretty sure just washing the make up off will do the trick.
We already know that they are not above having a fake marriage for ratings. After all that is what Kim did, and when you think of it, even out of the most decadent celebs how many can you think of that seemed to have a fake marriage? How many of your friends have had a fake marriage? I'm not saying it hasn't happened, people marry for residency etc, but it's pretty taboo thing to do, and yet Kim and clan didn't blink twice at taking fake vows.
I would like to point out I have no problem with trans gender people. I don't know any particularly well, but I have seen documentaries where they have talked about how tortured they feel, suicide attempts etc. Not being transgender myself I don't understand what they go through but I can certainly empathise, as it sounds like many of them go through hell, but in the case of Bruce/Caitlyn I really believe he is just a fake. In a few years time when it is not making any money for them anymore, he will then do a big change back to being a man. He will end up saying something like, "I though I was a woman, but now 2 years as a woman has made me realise that I was just confused and that actually I am a man. It has been a traumatic journey for me to realise my true gender as a man." Or he will say some similar bull like that. And it will make huge headlines of course and there will be another reality doco which he will be paid millions for, and be on Diane Sawyer and 60 minutes etc.
Of course there is a chance I am wrong and he is completely genuine, but here's the thing when people are constantly lying and fake in their past as the Kardashian/Jenner family have shown again and again that they are, then how on earth are we to ever believe anything they do as being possibly authentic? If a witness in court has been proven to constantly lie and be fake would you believe the next thing out of their mouth? And this is the family that we are giving Courage awards to! What has the world become!
Lets be honest. As a famous white man [previously], Bruce was in a privileged position to do what he did. He had the funds and clearly the confidence [all filmed]. Many others are not so lucky and are held back by lack of funds, family expectations, religious beliefs, society etc.