‘Caitlyn’ Jenner Says “The Hardest Part About Being a Woman is Figuring Out What to Wear” — and That’s Dead Wrong

‘Caitlyn’ Jenner Says “The Hardest Part About Being a Woman is Figuring Out What to Wear” — and That’s Dead Wrong

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Evidently, making a man one of Glamour Magazine’s “Women of the Year” wasn’t insulting enough. When Bruce Caitlyn Jenner was announced as one of the honorees, women were outraged — even the so-called feminists who typically fawn over Jenner. It was a slap in the face to women everywhere, as Glamour was essentially saying that a man in a dress makes a better woman than real women do. But Jenner had to take it a step further. During the awards ceremony this week, Jenner was interviewed by Buzzfeed, and what he had to say was rather… illuminating.

Over the last six months it’s really been a progression. I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don’t really utilize because they don’t have confidence in themselves about who they are, and what they can do. I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I’ve learned a lot from them. The power of the woman has just not even been unleashed around the world.

… The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear. It’s always that way; I never thought it would come to this. I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style — I learned as much as I possibly could. But, it’s more than that. I’m kind of at this point in my life where I’m trying to figure this womanhood thing out. It is more than hair, makeup, clothes, all that kind of stuff. There’s an element here, that I’m still kind of searching for. And I think that’ll take a while. Because I think as far as gender, we’re all on a journey. We’re all learning and growing about ourselves. And I feel the same way.

So to Caitlyn Jenner, the hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear. Just… let that sink in for a moment.

Now, the reason that this is the hardest part about being a woman to Jenner is because he isn’t actually a woman, and therefore, has no clue what he’s talking about. It’s funny how he has managed to boil womanhood down to the most shallow, frivolous things possible: clothes, shoes, makeup, shopping, gossiping. He’s made himself a parody of femininity, and yet, he’s praised as “brilliant” and “inspiring” for it, even as he insults and demeans women in one foul swoop.

What’s the hardest part about being a woman? Well, there’s a fairly long list. Here in the United States, where women are able to lead fairly safe, privileged lives, difficulties can include menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. Note that all four of those examples are things that Jenner, as a man, has never and will never experience. That’s not even including what happens when these things may go wrong — when menstruation is excruciatingly painful, when a woman suffers the agony of infertility, miscarriage, or stillbirth, the difficulties that can come with pregnancy, such as hyperemesis gravidarum, pre-eclampsia, or gestational diabetes, just to name a few. That’s not even including other health issues that women only face, such as cervical and ovarian cancers or endometriosis, or overwhelmingly affect women, such as breast cancer or thyroid disorders. If you look at the experiences women have outside of the United States, it gets even worse. Women have to fear forced marriages, forced abortions, and forced sterilizations. They can’t drive, vote, or get an education. If they dare to marry a man of their own choosing, they face public executions. In many Middle Eastern countries, if a woman is raped, she isn’t seen as a victim, but as the guilty party, and will be put to death. Remember Malala Yousafzai? She was shot in the face for trying to go to school. ‘The Stoning of Soraya M’ was based on the true story of one Iranian woman, who was cruelly stoned to death because her husband wanted to divorce her for a 14-year-old girl. Many, many women have met similar fates. There’s also female genital mutilation (FGM), a horror inflicted upon Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a prominent activist and outspoken opponent of FGM.

But sure. Getting dressed each day, that’s what is really hard for us women, with our tiny little woman minds, to handle. Thank goodness we have Caitlyn Jenner to mansplain womanhood to us — what would we do without him?? Of course, perhaps he shouldn’t have been asked the question at all, considering he’s not actually a woman. None of the challenges of being a woman are anything he could ever understand. It would be pretty hard for someone without a uterus to understand them, after all. For him, the hardest part about being a woman is dressing up, because that’s all he’s doing: playing dress-up.

On top of his utterly tone-deaf statements, it’s made even worse when you look at what Jenner, along with Glamour Magazine, has reduced womanhood too. For Jenner, being a woman is nothing more than a pair of fake boobs, some spanks, makeup, and fancy clothes. There is nothing deeper there for him, and considering that Glamour named him “Woman of the Year”, there’s nothing deeper for Glamour, either. In today’s twisted world, that’s the example we’re setting for our daughters — that being a woman is frivolous and vapid, and the only things to be concerned with are the shoes you’re going to wear or what’s in your closet. Feminazis whine about how not enough little girls grow up being interested in STEM fields, yet they prop up Caitlyn Jenner as a role model and an inspiration, and have no clue what the problem there is. We’re told that Jenner is so super brave for pretending to be a woman, and he was even given an award for it, but women who have to endure actual hardships and heartbreaks, they’re not brave. Women who fought for decades so that future generations of women could vote aren’t brave; women who choose to have a baby when it would mean being a single mother aren’t brave. Nope, Caitlyn Jenner is brave because he reduced women down to a caricature, posing for Vanity Fair in lingerie after he got a boob job and took advantage of massive amounts of Photoshop and parades around in the latest in drag queen chic. This is the person that’s being called a “trailblazer” — the person that dehumanizes women and sets us back decades.

Thanks, feminism.

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7 Comments
  • Joe Miller says:

    Jenner should have said the hardest part about becoming a woman was learning to ask for directions…and driving.

  • Rebecca says:

    I think the real story is this passage:

    I’m kind of at this point in my life where I’m trying to figure this womanhood thing out. It is more than hair, makeup, clothes, all that kind of stuff. There’s an element here, that I’m still kind of searching for. And I think that’ll take a while.

    So the most celebrated transgender individual in history has no idea why she did it.

  • cynical1 says:

    Of course it’s hard.

    “Do my balls look big in this dress”?

    Puhlease…

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  • Scotlyn says:

    It is very telling that in the first paragraph of the quote where Jenner is mansplaining all about how women’s problem is that we don’t have confidence in who we are or what we can do, Jenner refers to women as “they” and “them” but not as “we” or “us”. Pretty much says it all. Even Jenner doesn’t buy Jenner’s own “I’ve always had a laydee brain” nonsense.

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