…because like everything else coming from the left, if you refuse to conform you are an enemy of the state, “the state” being whatever state of being to which you refused to conform.
Moreover, there’s something gloriously perverse in celebrating someone’s (Bruce Jenner’s) courage to boldly smash sexual categories and then, in the same breath, castigating them for reinforcing gender stereotypes. If men are to be free to become women, surely they get to decide what kind of women they want to be. The first word in Vanity Fair is, after all, “vanity.” The Sports Illustrated swimsuit models seem very happy to be paid lots of money to be objectified by the male gaze. Who am I to judge?
Jonah Goldberg | National Review
