Megan Heimer article on Caitlyn Jenner

[kdrake8]

Was it posted already? I lurk here; my home board is April 12. I tried to see if it had been posted for you all. It looked like no from my quick search?

[heyjude]

Uh. Wut?!

[meshaliuknits]

I have not seen it, but it sounds like something that will raise my blood pressure.

[kdrake8]

Hold on!

[kdrake8]

www.livingwhole.org/how-the-cover-of-vanity-fair-and-caitlyn-jenner-objectified-women-everywhere/

[FloFTW]

I don't want to click. I DON'T WANT TO CLICK.

[2curlydogs]

Oh, this should be rich.

[josieposy]

Whoever is brave enough to click, please to summarize.

[mominatrix]

oh, FFS. Can she just shut her pie hole?

[2curlydogs]

About a handful of paragraphs in and here's the gist: Catelyn became a woman the easy way. HTH YWIA

[2curlydogs]

Also, real women don't wear expensive dresses. They wear yoga pants.

[charminglife]

Summary: Caitlyn doesn't look like a real 65 year old woman (grandmotherly, coming to your house w/ casserole in hand) so she's perpetuating stereotypes that women are only valued for their looks.

[josieposy]

Jun 2, 2015 15:44:05 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Also, real women don't wear expensive dresses. They wear yoga pants.

Not if they want to avoid tempting the menfolk.

Oh wait, I'm getting my bloggers confused again.....

[mominatrix]

She's definitely getting spanked by her comments section, though.


And, ::shocker:: she's not just deleting them!

[mominatrix]

The thing about articles like this from Megan Heimer, who spreads misinformation and endangers public health, is that some small percentage of it is true.

it's not that far off from the critique of the VF piece by Laverne Cox:
www.avclub.com/article/laverne-cox-wrote-thoughtful-response-caitlyn-jenn-220248


...but it's juuuuuuust far enough off that it's pissing me off.

[BlondeSpiders]

I love how the first 4 comments tell her how wrong and rude she is. Bazinga!

[josieposy]

Is the July issue even out yet? I mean are people making a lot of assumptions based on a cover and not the accompanying article? Or has the article been released too?

[NewOrleans]

I'd rather Megan Heimer opined about the changing definition of feminism than spread misinformation about vaccines.

[2curlydogs]

Jun 2, 2015 15:49:39 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

The thing about articles like this from Megan Heimer, who spreads misinformation and endangers public health, is that some small percentage of it is true.

it's not that far off from the critique of the VF piece by Laverne Cox:
www.avclub.com/article/laverne-cox-wrote-thoughtful-response-caitlyn-jenn-220248


...but it's juuuuuuust far enough off that it's pissing me off.

Dude, Megan Heimer's "article" isn't even CLOSE to Laverne Cox's response.

It's thinly veiled hate speech. It's clear she does not agree with anything other than a heteronormative lifestyle and that Catelyn made a CHOICE.

[mominatrix]

Jun 2, 2015 15:56:39 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Jun 2, 2015 15:49:39 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

The thing about articles like this from Megan Heimer, who spreads misinformation and endangers public health, is that some small percentage of it is true.

it's not that far off from the critique of the VF piece by Laverne Cox:
www.avclub.com/article/laverne-cox-wrote-thoughtful-response-caitlyn-jenn-220248


...but it's juuuuuuust far enough off that it's pissing me off.

Dude, Megan Heimer's "article" isn't even CLOSE to Laverne Cox's response.

It's thinly veiled hate speech. It's clear she does not agree with anything other than a heteronormative lifestyle and that Catelyn made a CHOICE.

that's IT!


on it's surface, they're really similar: both critiquing the cisnormative visuals, both calling into question whether saying Caitlyn looks great really is the appropriate response...


but that's where the similarity ends.



eta:  I think I gave her far too much credit.

[Kristinmo]

Here is the text so you don't have to click:

Yesterday, Vanity Fair released their new cover featuring “Call me Caitlyn” Jenner. The cover showed a heavily airbrushed Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) in a very expensive corset, extensions, fake breasts, and a very coordinated Photoshop surgery team made sure that Caitlyn looked like she didn’t have “the equipment,” she says she still has.
 
....

So congrats Caitlyn, with extensive surgery, Photoshop, fake hair, fake breasts, and makeup, you look like society’s ideal woman. You have also managed to parade a very serious issue in a very public and provocative manner and have objectified the very gender you claim to be a part of. All of your supporters have made you believe that one’s identity is grounded in your physical appearance but it’s not – whether you live your life as a man or a woman. We are so much more than that. You…are so much more than that.

Reality will eventually set in, and you’ll realize that being a woman is more than just a feeling, having nice hair, big breasts, and a sexy wardrobe that only (lots of) money can buy. What then? You’ve had the privilege of bypassing the challenges that most of us face because we are women, but since you have chosen to represent the female gender, I hope you remember what the women who came before us fought for and what we’re fighting against today the next time you pose on the cover of Vanity Fair in a corset.

(Pixy edited to remove full text. Left in quotes.)

[2curlydogs]

Jun 2, 2015 16:00:07 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

Jun 2, 2015 15:56:39 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Dude, Megan Heimer's "article" isn't even CLOSE to Laverne Cox's response.

It's thinly veiled hate speech. It's clear she does not agree with anything other than a heteronormative lifestyle and that Catelyn made a CHOICE.

that's IT!


on it's surface, they're really similar: both critiquing the cisnormative visuals, both calling into question whether saying Caitlyn looks great really is the appropriate response...


but that's where the similarity ends.



eta:  I think I gave her far too much credit.

Yup. It's pretty nasty. Megan Heimer who spreads misinformation and also apparently is a bigot.

[2curlydogs]

That's....a really creepy gif, lhc.

Hey. At least she didn't use the term "shim"! AMIRIGHT?

[meshaliuknits]

You know what Megan? You and your mom are not representative of all women. My grandmother would have died of shame if she was forced to wear yoga pants. She was always done up. Your mom is probably not a former Olympic athlete. I imagine a lot of former athletes still workout, even into their 60s. Some women, moms even, are weight lifters. Some grandmas only do take out. Some grandmas would rather have their teeth pulled than hang out with small children all day.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

Meagan Heimer, blowhard, who spreads lies and misinformation, has just made my head explode.

[gault]

Is Meagan Heimer, who spreads lies and misinformation, THAT intimidated by Caitlyn that she must go on a vendetta against her "fake womanness"? Does it harm you? Does it affect you in any way other than you taking it personally that she has better tits than you?

[taratru]

Except now the comments are full of love for Megan Heimer who spreads lies and misinformation.

Jeez people are stupid.

[emilyj]

Jun 2, 2015 16:00:21 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

It’s not the cover that bothered me (though I think anyone dressed this way needs a coat). I don’t read Vanity Fair or keep up with celebrities because to be perfectly honest, I don’t have time to watch what isn’t reality on reality t.v. I don’t care how people live their lives. You want to be a woman? Whatever. You want to be a man? Okay. You want to be an alien and move to area 51? Go right ahead. I may not agree with it but to each his own, right?

If you don't care how people live their lives, then stop being Megan Heimer, fake ass blowhard, who spreads lies and misinformation, and endangers public health.

[cattledogkisses]

I don't have it in me to critique a trans woman who has waited so long to be able to be open about it for wanting to experience some of the typical, or even stereotypical trappings of femininity.

(Megan Heiner spreads misinformation and compromises public health.)

[secretlyevil]

::rubs temples::

Nope, I just don't have the energy for hateful, bigoted Megan Heimer who spreads misinformation and endangers public health.