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I apologise for being a bit late to the party on this, but it's taken me a while to actually transfer what I think into coherent text.
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I apologise for being a bit late to the party on this, but it's taken me a while to actually transfer what I think into coherent text.
'Call me Caitlyn'. That's what she said. Not, 'Oh, you can call me Caitlyn if you want'. No, she told you exactly how to address her. So all those people telling the world that they're, in fact, going to take it upon themselves to call her Bruce *cough, Drake Bell*, are just malevolent pricks who need to get an ironically placed stick out of their arses.
All those people criticising the news for focussing on this 'worthless' story instead of, for example, the Nepal earthquake, need to understand that news broadcasters are not favouring Caitlyn's life over the thousands that have been affected by the disaster. I'm sure Caitlyn herself would agree that her story, though extremely important to the LGBT+ community, to which I am a part of, is not on the scale of such an epidemic, and nobody's arguing that! But the fact is, it's not just Caitlyn's life that we're talking about here, it's the lives of thousands of other people, young and old, struggling to come to terms with their sexuality and gender image.
This one woman, in the space of a couple of hours, broke the record for gaining the most Twitter followers in that amount of time. Now, I know some of you are thinking, 'Twitter followers don't mean anything', but you couldn't be more wrong. Social media is power. It connects people globally to one-another. Because of this, Caitlyn is power. She is spreading her message of confidence and acceptance across the globe, which will, in turn, inspire people to accept themselves. Without people like Caitlyn standing up for minority groups, the world would be a different place. A place where I wouldn't want to live.
The fact is, it's not just about Caitlyn anymore, it's about everyone. When people criticised her for introducing herself in such a grand way on the cover of Vanity Fair, they're right, it was an attention-seeking act. But she wasn't seeking attention for herself, but for her situation. By shining a light, and a big one at that, on her life, her body and her situation, it shone a light on other people. It opened up the doors to anyone who thought they were alone. Because, if it's one thing Caitlyn fought anyone, it's that the phrase 'I'm alone', doesn't have a place anymore in modern society.
So this is for Caitlyn. I hope you're happy. That's all there is to say, really.
R.
