{"id":1036,"date":"2015-06-04T08:42:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theramblingsofacrazyface.wordpress.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2015-06-04T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:42:51","slug":"in-case-youre-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/throughbrokenroses\/2015\/06\/04\/in-case-youre-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You're Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In a conversation yesterday someone told me that I was sowing confusion by using \u201cshe\u201d when talking about Caitlyn Jenner. I\u2019m gonna be honest and say that I hate talking about this subject at this point and it\u2019s not even been a week since the Vanity Fair cover was made public. I figured that I should write a few bullets points just to clear up any \u201cconfusion\u201d that I may have sown.<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner does not biologicly change the fact that she is a man. There is still that Y chromosome that no amount of hair extensions, hormones or surgeries can do anything about. I know this objectively. But just in the same way that nothing is going to change that fact, nothing that <\/em>I<\/strong> say is going to change what Caitlyn Jenner does, so I choose to go with respect and call her what she wants to be called.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a02. \u00a0Maybe it is because I speak Spanish that the pronoun doesn\u2019t confuse me at all. We speak in the feminine and masculine. So the word \u201ccamisa\u201d is feminine but a shirt is not a woman.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. \u00a0I can use \u201cCaitlyn\u201d even though her mother named her \u201cBruce\u201d the same way that I call Pope Francis \u201cFrancis\u201d and not Jorge. And there are those who don\u2019t like Papa and insist on calling him Jorge to be snarky and rude. Because it is rude to not call someone by what they want to be called.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a04. \u00a0I read in a few blog posts that Caitlyn Jenner is only adding to the idea that in order to be a woman you have to look a certain way which is impossible for everyday women to look because we don\u2019t have stylists, money, plastic surgeons, etc. I think that is a great point. We have been fighting the \u201ccover girl\u201d expectations of what women should look like in order to be \u201cbeautiful\u201d only to have this Vanity Fair cover cement in those expectations, which are unrealistic. I am not really sure how I feel about that other than it seems to make sense to me, but I will discuss with my drag queen friends and see what happens. Because it is true that being a woman is more than wearing dresses, fixing your hair and make-up.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a05. \u00a0I love Katrina\u2019s post<\/a> on this which has links to a lot of other posts on it that come from all different angles of looking at it. I find myself agreeing with a lot of them, like Tom McDonald\u2019s,<\/a> \u00a0even if I disagree with them on not calling someone what they want to be called. (Apparently, that is where I am \u201cconfused\u201d). Simcha\u2019s post is great too<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a06. Listen, we live in this world and we have to figure out how to live <\/em>in<\/strong> it and not <\/em>be<\/strong> of it. There is a difference. I can know objective truth and not beat people over the head with it. That does nothing to help anyone. But if that\u2019s your thing, then go for it, but it\u2019s not mine. I stand up when I need to and I am kind when I need to and I fight when I need to. The problem that I\u2019m seeing is that everyone is cool when I\u2019m fighting in agreement with the way they think that I should fight and for the things they think that I should fight for but not cool with it when I disagree with them. Story of my life.<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope that clears up any confusion that anyone may have. This isn\u2019t going away. Jenner is the first of many. This issue isn\u2019t going to just disappear and the media isn\u2019t going to let it go and everything is going to keep getting polarized until there are two camps fighting each other to the death. It\u2019s sad to me because really Catholics shouldn\u2019t be confused about treating people with kindness and respect, but apparently that is only reserved for people who agree with you and live according to your standards in some circles, I don\u2019t see where Jesus said that, but maybe I missed it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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