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no one cares about caitlyn jenner's book


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i found it just sitting on the new books shelf and picked it up. it has no holds on it so no one is trying to read it.

 

i dunno how much of it is true. apparently she was dressing as a women and sneaking around in public for years.

 

That's the kind of information that's hard to verify since it's secret, but two things

 

1. Generally speaking, nonfiction that doesn't at least stretch the truth tends to be boring as fuck, and an unreliable memory or even bias doesn't negate the category of nonfiction. Even a story that says "I imagine," and then makes something up -- no matter how outlandish they get with it, is still telling the truth, because it concedes to the narrator's imagination. But whatever it describes can still be vivid and enduring. There's a surprising amount that creative nonfiction can claim as nonfiction.

 

2. Knowing a significant number of trans folks, and relying on my own experiences with gender, I can say "sneaking around as a woman" is at least feasible and rings true.

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That's the kind of information that's hard to verify since it's secret, but two things

 

1. Generally speaking, nonfiction that doesn't at least stretch the truth tends to be boring as fuck, and an unreliable memory or even bias doesn't negate the category of nonfiction. Even a story that says "I imagine," and then makes something up -- no matter how outlandish they get with it, is still telling the truth, because it concedes to the narrator's imagination. But whatever it describes can still be vivid and enduring. There's a surprising amount that creative nonfiction can claim as nonfiction.

 

2. Knowing a significant number of trans folks, and relying on my own experiences with gender, I can say "sneaking around as a woman" is at least feasible and rings true.

 

i wasnt saying it wasnt untrue but he being such a public figure...it seems so desperate...dangerous...and really sad. it was also very shocking so part of me felt doubt and as if she were saying that to make the book more interesting.

 

the first page she defiantly declares that the book is HER truth and as true as her recollection allows.

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i wasnt saying it wasnt untrue but he being such a public figure...it seems so desperate...dangerous...and really sad. it was also very shocking so part of me felt doubt and as if she were saying that to make the book more interesting.

 

the first page she defiantly declares that the book is HER truth and as true as her recollection allows.

 

Her truth might deviate from anybody else's account of truth though. "True as her recollection allows" still allows for people to contend with her truth without nullifying it as nonfiction too.

 

She might've been a public figure, but it's not hard to blend in. I looked directly at Robert Pinsky -- one of my favorite poets -- and still doubted he was in fact Robert Pinsky, and so I didn't approach him. Now if Robert Pinsky dressed as a femme? I certainly wouldn't have recognized him.

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Used to be an Olympic superstar.  Should have been the "special" Olympics.  "Duh... I throw stuff and I eat Wheaties."

 

I'd say there is a 99% chance you've cleaned up her after spunk at some point in your elustreous career as a pro spunkmopper.

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Caitlyn Jenner medaled in the Olymics as Bruce Jenner, then became Caitlyn Jenner, got on the cover of Vanity Fair, was a poster child for trans rights til she declared she was Republican.  Good luck getting any traction as a trans Republican.

 

Eh? I believe she was always a Republican.

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At this point, everyone is realizing that maybe Caitlyn was really as vapid as the other Kardashian's and Jenner's all along. Her feud with Kris gave the false illusion that she was the only sane one, but nope, no one on that show is free from the shallow vanity that comes with the territory of reality TV rich people.

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