Bruce Jenner - Reality Star

As I'd said earlier, I'm more then a bit cynical about  the Bruce Jenner transition, not that he isn't bold for going public, more so in that we don't know if he's going to actually go through with it.  There is so much hype going on right, which is super publicity for his transition reality show.  Yep, I have a problem with that, too.  It's not as though this brave man is going enlighten and educate the public in a newsworthy way.  His show is going to be on "E" Entertainment.

One of that network's biggest hits is "Keeping up with the Kardashians," which is, for the most part, about a family of media whores.  The show does okay for the network, but may be starting to show it's age. 

Yesterday I went into see what kind of news they had on their website and found this was what they reported on:  a Chris Evans story, and something about the Clooney's going to a dinner party.  Here's one of their hit shows called Botched, which evidently coming back for it's 2nd season.  Let's face it, this is pretty much trash / tabloid television; not the place you'd hope to find reputable reporting.  This is the network that is now going to carry Bruce Jenner's, now very public, transition.

Hence my cynicism.  It seems to me the focus is on capitalizing a very personal issue for the purpose of self-exploitation and profit.  If this were about a transgender teenager from Ohio, or Indiana, would "E" Entertainment have the slightest interest?  And when these shows air, with they be trivializing the issues faced in order to make them entertaining?  Is the hope for a ratings coup one of the driving forces here?  We will have to wait and see, won't we.

In the meantime, I thought I'd exploit a picture of Chris Evans wearing a shirt.

You do know "E" Entertainment would see this as a waste of space because he isn't shirtless.  There's nothing sensational about this picture, and that's a problem for them.  They don't want Bruce Jenner, Olympian, they want Bruce Jenner, Reality Star, and I suspect that is truly what Bruce Jenner wants to be.

Bruce Jenner gave an interview last eveing

I didn't watch it.  I don't have cable.  Even if I did, I wouldn't have watched it.  Truthfully?  I have zero interest in the story.  Remember, he's a Kardashian, even if only through marriage, the family who have turned self-promotion into a dirty art form.  Unless he / she starts going to events and begins to publicly speak about transgender people deal with, all he's done is make a lot of money from an interview.  Has he had the actual surgery yet?  I don't know, I didn't watch the interview.  If he hasn't, and is only doing hormone therapy, he isn't truly a woman.  Two years from now he can change his mind.

Yes, this is me being cynical.  I can't see him standing up for transgender rights unless he is getting paid to do so.  I can see him fading out of sight now that everything has been revealed, unless, of course, someone waves a check.  Maybe I'll be proved wrong.  Perhaps he will become a truly vocal spokesperson for transgendered individuals every where.  Some how I doubt that will ever happen.