Social media exploded Monday with the release of Vanity Fair’s cover featuring “Caitlyn” Jenner, but not everyone was supportive.
That’s because thinking “Caitlyn” Jenner is pretty is racist.
That’s according to Moorehouse College professor and CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill, who complained that the widespread support for Jenner’s decision to go public with a female sexual identity in Vanity Fair only showed how racist the American standard of beauty really is.
Even when it’s liberals doing the judging.
In a series of tweets, Hill argued that acceptance and praise for Jenner is only widespread because she conforms to white “Eurocentric” standards of beauty as they are accepted by “cisgender” people — or “cis” as he abbreviated it.
(“Cisgender,” for those who don’t follow such things, is the PC term for people who identify as the sex they’re born with. The rest of us call that “normal.”)
If we only celebrate and welcome Caitlyn Jenner bc she conforms to tradition cis/and European standards of beauty, we are making a mistake.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 1, 2015
Between the Vanity Fair spread and “she’s so pretty” convos, we’ve smuggled in the same old cis/Eurocentric narratives about womanhood.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 1, 2015
Trans bodies come in many shapes, sizes, & forms. We must learn to accept, love, & normalize all of them. Not just the “cover-worthy” ones. — Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 1, 2015
Unsurprisingly, many people seemed upset that Hill had decided to use Jenner’s cover spread for a conversation about racism and white privilege, instead of transgender acceptance.
@marclamonthill She chose to do the spread. Sorry, we cis folks don’t get to tell trans people how to present themselves to the world.
— Julianna (@Jewles) June 1, 2015
@Jewles Im not feeling his stream of tweets right now either. Youre expressing yourself better than I can — MaidenOfThottingham (@Ms_Sashii) June 1, 2015
@marclamonthill oh for fucks sake, give it a rest. You could spin some homespun bullshit into anything
— Eddie (@eddiecarl4468) June 2, 2015
.@marclamonthill, so you admit you are a busybody know it all stickin his nose where its unwelcome? #lol @Jewles — Voting Female (@VotingFemale) June 2, 2015
@marclamonthill What would you know about womanhood? Do you have lady parts?
— SouthernWolf (@SouthernWolf) June 2, 2015
@marclamonthill Yet you’re completely hijacking the awesome of Caitlin coming out by creating some negative BS. Just STFU. — Kristine ❀♡❀♡ (@KristineAz) June 2, 2015
@marclamonthill ??? why this though why?????????????
— Frankee (@boii_Geniuz) June 1, 2015
@marclamonthill dude get a life — Stephen Vasil (@Stephen_Vasil) June 2, 2015
@marclamonthill . She is the one who has decided to go for that “eurocentric” look, you know.
— Kwena (@___Zol) June 2, 2015
Hill tried to walk some of his comments back by pointing out that he wasn’t upset with Jenner.
My critique isn’t of Caitlyn Jenner. It’s of US. Before we get injured patting ourselves on the back for being so progressive….
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 1, 2015
Apparently social media users can’t even support progressive causes without offending other liberals.
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