One votes one’s class interest
Shock-horror, Bette Midler is unimpressed by Caitlyn Jenner.
Bette Midler @BetteMidler Nov 19
People, #CaitlynJenner says she is STILL voting GOP in 2016. Regardless of gender identity, I guess she identifies most as “uninformed.”
This week, Jenner revealed she still plans to vote for a Republican Presidential candidate – despite most of the contenders being staunch opponents of trans and LGB rights.
Speaking to the LA Times after the Democratic Presidential debate, she said: “They didn’t convince me.”
The frontrunners for the Republican nomination are currently billionaire Donald Trump and Dr Ben Carson – a former Fox News pundit who thinks gay weddings are a Marxist plot and never wants to pee next to a transgender person.
But if one of them is nominated, Jenner will vote for him.
Seems pretty uninformed to me.
They are also against women’s rights, but that doesn’t concern Caitlyn, either. Her greatest struggle is deciding what to wear.
So it seems that when given a choice between increasing respect and acceptance for trans people or increasing personal wealth for the already wealthy, Caitlyn chooses money.
And she continues to be held up as a beacon for progressiveness by vapid outlets such as Buzzfeed.
It’ll be interesting if promising to vote for a Repub damps progressives’ enthusiasm, when Jenner’s consistently patriarchal and gender-stereotyped attitudes did not.
We’re going to have to start calling them something other than “progressives.” “Tribalists” springs to mind.
About the “progressives” thing: I think it shows that “progressive” is a useless label if nobody specifies what direction they’re progressing in.
Sometimes people can’t see the needs of others until the need hits them. But it is a common phenomenon that folks are willing to take care of themselves but can’t translate that into the awareness that others share the same needs or desires for that matter.