Screen shot 2016-03-09 at 1.16.20 PMAnd here’s today’s news post from Caitlyn Jenner’s Fantasyland: The woman who just days ago was blathering on about how Ted Cruz is an intelligent, articulate man and a great constitutionalist, and she wants to be Cruz’s “ambassador” to the transgender community — is now making headlines for making sure we all know that Hillary Clinton doesn’t care about women.
According to MSNBC, Jenner got into a “heated argument” with “one of her peers” during the season premiere of her “reality show,” I Am Cait, and in that argument Jenner declared: “If we’re unfortunate enough to get Hillary as our next president, we need her on our side, [but] she won’t be. She couldn’t care less about women, she only cares about herself.”
I am pretty sure Hillary Clinton’s record on women’s issues speaks for itself. Democrats may be arguing amongst themselves about whether Sanders or Clinton is better on civil rights issues — including equality for women and for LGBT people — and about which one of them has the best policies on the economy, terrorism, world affairs, etc. But Caitlyn Jenner may very well be the ONLY person in the country who would say that Cruz is better than either Democratic on civil rights for anybody.
Let me just speak plainly: Before she transitioned, Caitlyn Jenner lived as a white man swaddled in wealth and privilege, famous for long-ago being an outstanding athlete and for currently being a part of that train wreck known as the Kardashian family. Nobody was chasing Bruce Jenner down to seek his political wisdom. Since her transition, Jenner is a white woman swaddled in wealth and privilege, famous for being a part of that train wreck known as the Kardashian family, for transitioning publicly and, now, for saying absolutely asinine things about politics and presidential candidates.
Everyone, including Caitlyn Jenner, is entitled to their opinion. But maybe if you are gonna put yourself out there as some sort of representative for a particular community or as a political pundit, you should educate yourself a little better. And I am talking about “real-world education,” not “privileged white Republican living in a bubble” education.