I Am Cait — Page 2

Makes Caitlyn look like a featherweight!

Me too!

I know you have a vocabulary of one word when you want to praise something ("great") but I have a bigger one than you. The word I used to describe the show was "moving". And before you go off and get all headbandy about how that is just my opinion that it was MOVING, I would like to reiterate to you for the umpteenth time that anything I post (you can tell I'm doing that because it has my name next to it) is, in point of fact, my opinion.

That all seems fair. The positive things I have to say are based on the fact that she mentioned the less privileged on the show. In case people need a reminder, I never said the show was "great." "The Comeback" is a great TV show.

"Maybe I'll be slammed for this, but I don't really care. I've seen enough of Caitlyn. I don't need to see a TV show about her and I'm certainly tired of seeing her on every news cycle. I don't give a crap what she's wearing today."

I suppose this forum was not named clearly enough to help you avoid reading about her some more?

The fact that she had stylists with her round the clock was more than a bit off-putting. "Do you want me to choose some things for you?" "I have picked three and you can choose." I mean, it was just her mom and sisters coming over. Then Kimye. Vomit.

And please don't be using the 'your opinion' argument when everybody knows that when you voice your opinion you always think yours is right and everybody else is wrong.

No I don't. You say that to me a lot, but it's what's going on in your head, not mine. You have a two word critical vocabulary, go back and look at the Madonna thread. If she does something terrible, you say it's "fine". If she does something you like, it's "great". Go look at what you said about the rehearsal video.

The first episode of this series moved me. Very often I am moved by things that are contrived to move people. I know what I'm watching, and yet, I was moved.

[Please note: I still don't think it was "great" television.]

"Take away her politics, her wealth and privilege and what you have left is that she is a human being...just like the rest of us"

No, and she will NEVER be like the rest of us. She will always have her lackeys, her stylists, her handlers, her script writers. I'm more concerned with the people who aren't filthy rich, and who live in fear EVERY day of their lives, living out here in the normal world, without body guards.
I hate reality shows, except for the cooking, make up and fashion shows. I won't be wasting my time seeing how a privileged trans-person lives. "

Re-read what I wrote: TAKE AWAY her wealth and privilege (which include her lackeys, stylists, her handlers and her script writers)...and she is a human being just like the rest of us.

If you want to concern yourself with only those who aren't as you put it "filthy rich" that is your prerogative but she also deserves compassion, understanding and support just like anyone else who is transgendered regardless of her financial status or political affiliation.

Updated On: 7/29/15 at 03:37 PM

Just like Marcus Bachmann at a Provincetown spit-roast, I'm stuck in the middle on this one. I watched the first episode. I'm glad I did. I definitely won't go out of my way to catch another episode, though. I thought that for what it was - an E! reality series - it was very well done. I was genuinely moved by Caitlyn's mother - both her struggle and her seemingly swift turn in the direction of acceptance and love. I also enjoyed watching Caitlyn's older sister who seemed to be an intelligent and compassionate woman. I admire Caitlyn's courage and her full embrace of a new mission in life as an advocate for trans rights and I get the impression that her outreach to members of the trans community are genuine and not solely motivated by the desire for more fame and money.

Unfortunately, Caitlyn and the whole Jenner/Kardashian clan have been carefully crafting these cool, detached on-camera personas for so long (thanks, E! School of 'Acting') that when they interact with people who have not spent the past decade+ in performative scripted "reality", they end up looking like weird, emotionless androids attempting stilted impressions of genuine human beings. I mean, watch the ways in which they awkwardly hug each other, or don't make eye contact or don't seem to register any genuine emotion - then contrast that with the way that Jenner's mother and sisters act. The meeting with the mother of the young San Diego teen who commited suicide made me cringe. Not because the meeting was happening - the mother seemed genuinely appreciative - but because of how oddly Caitlyn would respond to everything the mother was telling her as though she was being told a story about a nice picnic the family took.

Again, I admire and support how Caitlyn is using her celebrity to advocate for trans people who are not as privileged as she is. But, as her mother said, the exterior may change, but the inner soul doesn't. As an on-camera personality, Bruce was duller than dishwater and Caitlyn is as well.

Two random things I enjoyed in this ep:

Caitlyn's exquisite penmanship (when signing her mother's b'day card).

Seeing Kanye be so, ya know, DTE and soft spoken.

PS - just to confirm, Namo, you thought the show was "GREAT", right?

Updated On: 7/31/15 at 05:43 AM

But why a tv show? Especially on a junk channel like E ?

Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around....

Didn't take long for the political side to rear its ugly head.

Cait's Asshole-ishness Shines Through

Updated On: 8/2/15 at 08:03 PM

I like Jen. She reminds me of Judy Greer.