James Smith does make some good points.
Poor Bruce/Caitlyn is having a bad week. First he/she was bombarded by protesters who called the Olympian “an insult to trans people” while he/she was at a speaking engagement. The protestors claimed Jenner is an unfit representative of the transgender community. “You have no right to represent us! You are an insult,” an unidentified participant screams.
Now the New York Post reports that the husband of a cop killed on 9/11 returned his wife’s posthumous Woman of the Year award to Glamour after the magazine gave the same honor last week to Caitlyn Jenner. James Smith took the award, dedicated to his wife Moira, and yanked it off the shelf and FedExed it back to the magazine!
Moira Smith
Back in 2001, Glamour honored Moira who died at the age of 38 after rushing into the south tower. But after Jenner, 66, was anointed last week, Smith told the magazine’s editor, Cindi Leive, to take the award and shove it.James doesn’t sound like a fan of Jenner’s. He said, “I was shocked and saddened to learn that Glamour has just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year,’ ”, calling the former Olympic track star and Kardashian reality-show patriarch “Bruce Ball-less Jenner.” (Technically he still has his balls, I think!)
And James dared to ask why a real woman wasn’t given the honor. He wrote, “Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man? At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police and firefighters putting their lives on the line for total strangers, brave women overcoming life threatening diseases . . . the list of possibilities goes on . . . is this the best you could do?”
Of course Glamour magazine stands by its decision to award the “Woman of the Year” award to Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner. A spokesman for the magazine said, “We were proud to honor his wife . . . in 2001, and we stand by our decision to honor Caitlyn Jenner,” a Glamour spokeswoman said on Saturday. “Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards recognize women with a variety of backgrounds and experiences.”
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