{"id":18503,"date":"2015-04-30T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=18503"},"modified":"2015-05-02T02:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T02:55:49","slug":"televisionkarens-musings-bruce-jenners-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/televisionkarens-musings-bruce-jenners-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"TELEVISION\/KAREN&#8217;S MUSINGS: BRUCE JENNER&#8217;S INTERVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BRUCE JENNER&#8217;S INTERVIEW<\/h1>\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t want to weigh-in on the Bruce Jenner situation again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s none of my business, and should be very personal to anyone going through gender dysphoria. But, people keep asking me for my thoughts, so here I am.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already weighed-in on the topic, (see the link in the next paragraph,) and my thoughts and feelings have not changed. Nor will they.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18507\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abc_jenner_sawyer_2_wy_150424_16x9_992-e1430420653354.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18507\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18507\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abc_jenner_sawyer_2_wy_150424_16x9_992-e1430420653354-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce being a woman--I can see it.\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abc_jenner_sawyer_2_wy_150424_16x9_992-e1430420653354-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/abc_jenner_sawyer_2_wy_150424_16x9_992-e1430420653354.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce being a woman&#8211;I can see it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This time, I&#8217;m writing about just Diane Sawyer&#8217;s ultra-weak interview itself, so, if you&#8217;d like my take (which is really pretty interesting, if I do say so myself,) on the whole topic to begin with, please click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/gossip-bruce-jenners-transition\">http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/gossip-bruce-jenners-transition<\/a>.\u00a0 I just re-read it myself, and even <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> amazed that I was exactly correct on what was happening with him<em> two decades<\/em> ago! OMG! I was spot-on. It&#8217;s the exact story he told Diane in the interview!<\/p>\n<p>And now, here are my thoughts on the now world famous <em>20\/20<\/em> interview that aired last Friday night:<\/p>\n<p>Diane Sawyer did a terrible job of interviewing Bruce Jenner!\u00a0 There was so much more she could have asked!\u00a0 They really needed <em>me<\/em> and my superior grilling techniques to get to the bottom of it all.\u00a0 Hers was far from the &#8220;explosive&#8221; interview that it was promoted to be.\u00a0 She barely got to the bottom of <em>anything<\/em>! A high school journalism student could have done a better job of it!<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to know what makes him a <em>woman<\/em>, rather than a <em>cross-dresser<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How about these for queries: \u201cSince you&#8217;re attracted to only women, when you transition, will you then be a lesbian?\u201d; \u201cWhen [your third wife] Kris saw your boobs when you were first intimate, didn&#8217;t she think something was up?\u201d; \u201cDid you have normal, good-feeling sex with all the wives you loved ?\u201d;\u00a0\u201cIt appears that Linda [Bruce&#8217;s second wife] knew the story while you were still married, is that correct?\u00a0 So, is that why you two broke up?\u201d (More on this one in a second.);\u00a0 \u201cDid you have any pals you shared your secret with, to make it easier for you to bear? \u00a0 Or a shrink?&#8221;; \u00a0 &#8220;What made you<em> not<\/em> do it those thirty years ago, when you state you first wanted to, and then just fade into the background?&#8221;; and the most important one of all&#8211;\u201cDo you think it was fair to marry three women, and even have children with them, when you knew you were really a woman and not a man?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18505\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-interview-zoom-e1429953485639-640x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18505\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-interview-zoom-e1429953485639-640x250-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Jenner, doing his infamous interview with Diane Sawyer.\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-interview-zoom-e1429953485639-640x250-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-interview-zoom-e1429953485639-640x250.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Jenner, doing his infamous interview with Diane Sawyer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Diane also never used the word \u201cPenis,\u201d (which I hate saying myself, so I sort-of understand; of course, like me, she could have just referred to it as \u201cthe p-word,\u201d) and I really don&#8217;t think she even ever uttered the more adult \u201cgenitalia.\u201d I really don&#8217;t understand how you become the other sex if you keep your original genitalia. I thought that was sort-of what defined which sex you were born, right or wrong. Diane really needed to get to the bottom of that.<\/p>\n<p>I learned more of what went on (and the answers to several of <em>my<\/em> questions,) by reading ex-wife Linda Thompson&#8217;s column that was published during the week-end, than I did from Diane Sawyer&#8217;s &#8220;big interview!&#8221;\u00a0 (If you&#8217;re curious, you can read Linda&#8217;s writing here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/linda-thompson\/bruce-jenner-linda-thompson_b_7080918.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/linda-thompson\/bruce-jenner-linda-thompson_b_7080918.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many, I do<em> not<\/em> feel that he did this interview for publicity.\u00a0 Maybe he did, since he participated in his family&#8217;s TV show. I never saw the reality series, but I now have the feeling he just went along with it, as it seems he&#8217;s been doing with most things in his life, now that we know what he&#8217;s always been going through. Even never having met him, nor anyone in his giant fam, I&#8217;m just about positive that he did the interview because the press would hound him forever during his \u201ctransition.\u201d\u00a0 This way, it&#8217;s all out in the open; he told his story the way he wanted, so it takes away much of the torture from the media creeps.\u00a0 So, good for him!\u00a0 And I&#8217;m sure he really <em>does<\/em> want to help others in his situation.\u00a0 Why wouldn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>Why he&#8217;s going ahead with his planned docu-series is another issue. He told Diane that this was the last interview he was doing as a man, so I don&#8217;t know how the series is going to work. I guess he&#8217;s not considering it an \u201cinterview,\u201d per se.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18506\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bruce-Jenner2-e1430420800160.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18506\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18506\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bruce-Jenner2-e1430420800160-300x260.png\" alt=\"Bruce Jenner showing Diane Sawyer the first dress he's going to wear as an official woman.  I believe I wore the same one to a birthday party of mine--a dozen years ago!  Trust me, it looked better on me, by a mile! (And that's a pretty weak closet, too, especially for a rich guy!  I hope that will change when he becomes a woman!)\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bruce-Jenner2-e1430420800160-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bruce-Jenner2-e1430420800160-110x96.png 110w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bruce-Jenner2-e1430420800160.png 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Jenner showing Diane Sawyer the first dress he&#8217;s going to wear as an official woman. I believe I wore the same one to a birthday party of mine&#8211;a dozen years ago! Trust me, it looked better on me, by a mile! (And that&#8217;s a pretty weak closet, too, especially for a rich guy! I hope that will change when he becomes a woman!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To finish-up the topic, and hopefully be done with it, (at least for a long while,) I have no problem with Bruce Jenner, or anyone, changing his or her sex. \u00a0(Unless, bite my tongue until it bleeds, Mr. X. If <em>he<\/em> told me he was really a woman, after I had lived with him for so many years, I&#8217;d do the job for him myself!) I say live and let live, as long as no one is getting hurt. (Even though Bruce obviously <em>did<\/em> hurt at least three women. His <em>kids<\/em> should <em>not<\/em> be hurt at all, because had he not perpetuated his life-lie in the manner he did, they would not be here!!!) \u201cTransitioning\u201d into the opposite sex is just such a rare occurrence, (although it does appear to getting much more prevalent, and even something to sort-of flaunt,) and this the only instance of a <em>celeb<\/em> doing it, (especially one who&#8217;s known for his <em>manliness<\/em>,) that it&#8217;s hard for most of us to wrap our heads around.<\/p>\n<p>I have to end with a couple of amusing statements to come out of this spectacle. Mr. X is making me tell you the first one: While watching the interview, after Bruce Jenner said he&#8217;s attracted to only <em>women<\/em>, Mr. X asked me, \u201c So now Bruce is going to be limited to dating only lesbians? So what&#8217;s going to happen with that?\u201d I answered, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how any of that works. I don&#8217;t understand it. I couldn&#8217;t even sleep with anyone with <em>back hair<\/em> so\u2026&#8221; As amusing as Mr. X thought that was, I really can&#8217;t figure any of this out. Even though gender and sexuality are two different things, whom you have sex with is definitely connected to it! So, as much as I&#8217;m not a fan of <em>Kris<\/em> Jenner, (he said if she&#8217;d be accepting, they&#8217;d still be married,) how can you fault her for not wanting to sleep with a woman, when she married a manly man. (Although, as I said before, she knew about his breasts from the get-go! It&#8217;s all a head-scratcher.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2014wait&#8211;wouldn&#8217;t it be a riot if he changed his name to <em>Kris<\/em>??? OMG! I can&#8217;t believe I didn&#8217;t think of that before!!!<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, Kris Humphries, who had that famous seventy-two-day marriage to Bruce&#8217;s stepdaughter, Kim Kardashian, tweeted right after the interview: \u201cMan, I&#8217;m glad I got out when I did.\u201d Just hearing the newsman who was reporting on the story read that made us laugh out loud. Very funny, albeit a bit insensitive. (But not everyone has to hop on board; I feel a lot of people are faking their support to be politically correct.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, Bruce&#8211;Good luck with your Republican leanings.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that party will really embrace your newfound womanhood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUCE JENNER&#8217;S INTERVIEW I really didn&#8217;t want to weigh-in on the Bruce Jenner situation again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s none of my business, and should be very personal to anyone going through gender dysphoria. But, people keep asking me for my thoughts, so here I am. I&#8217;ve already weighed-in on the topic, (see the link in the next<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/televisionkarens-musings-bruce-jenners-interview\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-karens-musings","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18549,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}