Caitlyn Jenner has revealed that she doesn’t think a Halloween costume inspired by her is at all offensive.
The “Call Me Caitlyn” costume, available at Any Time Costumes and Wholesale Halloween Costumes, is aimed at men who want to dress up like the transgender star.
“I’m in on the joke,” she told The Today Show. “Yeah, no, I don’t think it’s offensive at all. I know the community does, and [Any Time Costumes and Wholesale Halloween Costumes have] gotten a lot of criticism for doing it. I think it’s great, to be honest with you; I think it’s great. But they could have come up with a better outfit for it.”
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gskorich
why would she be offended? maybe the trans community could put down their weapons for once and stop calling everything transphobic!!
Lvng1Tor
@gskorich: If the costume was just inspired by her as a reality star and not based on making fun of her gender I’d agree. Problem is, even though she, in her VERY privileged world, doesn’t have to deal with the true and awful abuse most of our trans family has to deal with. By not standing up and saying this is not ok to mock her gender is to say it’s ok for all trans people to be mocked, bullied, harassed, discriminated and abused because of who they are. She is out of touch with the people she claims to want to help.
gskorich
@Lvng1Tor: why is her priveledge such an issue. I imagine Jazz is too priveledged to be considered a real transgender. not all transgendered people are sex workers. not all of them are being discriminated against. I would imagine most go through life with very little issues.
Taurmaurils
> I would imagine most go through life with very little issues.
You would imagine very, very, very wrongly. Don’t make assumptions about a community that you have absolutely no first-hand knowledge about.
Cynthia Gilletti
If she does not care ,then she is a good sport.
Billy Budd
I guess MOST of them suffer a lot. It is weird to change ones’ sex and people are nasty.
Billy Budd
Here in Brazil most transgender people ( transvestites, transexuals) are street workers, I mean prostitutes. That is all they’ve got.
Louis
I Tried so hard to watch I Am Cait and I teamed up when she was listening to the news of another transgender child committing suicide.
However the callous way Caitlyn responded to it clearly shows she is in her own little world when it comes to her transgender brothers and sisters.
Some seem to think she’s this wonderful person yet all I have seen is severe narcissism and a self absorbed attitude.
I read of her recent statements of not always supporting marriage equality and how she just decided to support it …when it benefited her.
After all the years of people like her intentionally standing in the way of other people’s rights and knowingly seeing the violence utter cruelty and inhumanity that the transgender community has endured been put through and experienced it just disgusts me period.
I also really wish people would stop mocking people for finding certain things unjust and flat out wrong.
Being insensitive is a sign of sheer weakness as a human being its just plain sad .
The fact that Caitlyn actually looks at some straight guy mocking a persons struggle to be their authentic selves love themselves and accept themselves as they are as a joke is the straw that broke the camels back for me personally .
One doesn’t have to be transgender to give a damn about them and show them respect and dignity and compassion as human beings.
I also don’t understand how anyone can claim to know what someone else has experienced in their own lives THEY know though and no one gay lesbian bisexual or transgender should ever have to experience or endure or go through the indignities inhumanities hatred and cruelty that so many in this community have experienced.
You would think we would have the capacity to show more sensitivity and understanding especially regarding all the above that I described .
Lvng1Tor
@gskorich: It’s not just her privilege…it’s her extreme privilege that has made her out of touch. I assume you are talking about Jazz Jennings? Yes she also comes from a place of more privilege…but she uses that privilege to make a positive change in the lives of other trans people. Privilege in of it’s self is neither a positive or a negative…it just is…it’s what you do with it that matters.
And what the F? Who’s calling out who’s a “real” transgender person…they are all real. They all have real experiences but from someone who is a celeb de’jour, excessively wealthy, has camera’s following them around and a marketing firm, beauty army and tightly controlled interactions with the other 99% is most probably out of touch with the way most people (regardless of gender) live and have to deal with.
Absolutely, not all transgender people are sex workers (although there is a disproportionately high # ) or are horribly abused but unlike you I don’t have to “imagine” what most have to deal with. I work in the LGBT non profit world and actually know, meet, facilitate meetings for and with, and have co workers I see everyday that are transgender. Many of who are teens, a couple are Doctors, a couple lawyers and people in all sorts of fields of work. Different ethnicity, different up bringing, different socio economics…(insert list of what makes us individuals) and most regardless of these factors have had to face discrimination, verbal abuse, harassment, fear of safety and the very insulting denial of who they are or that they are sick. Most have had some form of physical assault ranging from being slammed into lockers, slapped, shoulder slammed to out right beatings and sexual assault/rape/murder (again, statistically disproportionately high #”s). I have friends who were just sitting at an outdoor cafe when a stranger came up and spit at them calling them sick freaks.
Don’t imagine, Know! We can’t pretend these issues don’t exist just because they aren’t a part of our personal daily realities.
I’m not calling Caitlyn Jenner a bad person. In truth, I think her visibility does some real good for the trans community. I’ve enjoyed her show. She’s just out of touch with the day to day reality of the majority of trans people have to face. This was an opportunity to, at least, say it’s in poor taste to make her gender a joke and not her celebrity. Recognizing that her life is different than what too many trans kids have to face. That’s as simple as paying attention to see. It’s a shame really.
Louis
@Billy Budd: If you feel that when you are born that you are not the gender people label you as from the very beginning then you can’t even begin to comprehend or grasp how difficult that would be.
These people know the truth about themselves which is wonderful if this community was more understanding and educated about the transgender community there wouldn’t be so many who rightfully have an issue with gay men.
Thank you also for perfectly exemplifying my point about insensitivity your comments reaked of that.
Peter McKinney
Because there’s nothing offensive about it.
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Even if she is offended so what. It is a Halloween costume.
Captain Obvious
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the one selling them or at least gets a kickback from it. Those Kartrashians and Jenders do anything for money.
Meanwhile he’s still a homophobic ass so I couldn’t care less what he wants to be called. He’ll still be a he as long as he’s a hypocrite.
Bob LaBlah
@Captain Obvious: Not only did you take the thought out of my mind but I can only wonder why the ignoramuses that support her still can see the phony she is. If the damn costume is called ‘Call me Caitlyn Mae” and it is a copy of what she wore, poses and all, didnt it click in some ones mind that once again this thing is pulling a marketing/advertising stunt for profit? Who would have even gave a damn? How stupid can the community really be not to see her cut from those costume sales?
Michael Feather
Wow, Jay and Peter. Privileged much?
andy_d
Of course she wouldn’t be offended. This publicity whore is glad for ANY chance to keep her name out there in the public.
Giancarlo85
More publicity is great for that family. I don’t care for her. She is quite annoying and her political views are contradictory. Conservatives hate trans people. But people in here ought to not misrepresent trans people. Most of them are not not homophobic. Trans people can be gay, straight or bi too.
Giancarlo85
@Billy Budd: Trans people suffer because of ignorant asses like yourself. Some gay men are the real hypocrites. They are transphobic and even homophobic towards certain gay men. Hypocrites on here ought to be ashamed of themselves.
n900mixalot
I am okay with husky bros in bootie shorts. Quite okay.
Men have dressed up as women for Halloween for ages. Centuries. Now it’s just a man as a woman who was formerly a man who made a spectacle of himself. How does this affect the trans community more than a Chinaman or drunk Mexican costume affects the Chinese or Mexican communities.
You want to be a strong community then toughen up and grow a thick skin. Choose real battles and stop whining about such stupid matters as celebrities like this moron. Set the example. Be the role model. Wear the suit or the dress and make it work!
onthemark
@n900mixalot: “Chinaman or drunk Mexican”? – I’m almost afraid to ask where you live, where those are considered cool Halloween costumes. (But I’ll guess – someplace where it’s hot & humid 10 months a year, and there’s a lot of kudzu?)
Do you guys ever just put on a white sheet with a pointy cap and go as… oh, never mind.
Louis
@n900mixalot: Oh shut the fuck up already if people like you would have an oh I don’t know a CONSCIENCE then I wouldn’t have to bore myself with these endlessly boring macho repetitive highly predictable and pathetic comments such as yours.
Grow the hell up already and see gay men like you for absolutely what you are insensitive pathetic pretentious hypocrites.
Damnit I swear some of you are truly an embarrassment to this community go join Fox News already they’d love that lame line of being sensitive or easily offended or mocking other people’s right to speak out over injustices and bigotry.
Smgfh.
Alistair Wiseman
A major defining characteristic of modern-day liberalism is the ease with which liberals take offense personally and/or on behalf of others. (This is further evidenced by the attached, left-leaning Huffington Post article concerning this subject.)
Conservatives, like Ms. Jenner, are so used to being labeled with the various pejoratives liberals attribute to conservatives that it is almost impossible to offend them.
Liberals’ claims of being offended themselves, or on behalf of a selected group are almost endless.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume_55d73f1ce4b0a40aa3aa9d56
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: Oh wow… the wiseass is back at it! He’s now claiming “liberals” are offended about everything. Take a look around you… conservatives are the ones who are uber-sensitive and cannot handle the slightest bit of criticism. If you criticize a conservative they feel like they are being victimized.
Take a look at this crackpot shit article as evidence of my claim:
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/09/05/kim-davis-emerges-as-lightning-rod-for-religious-freedom-among-some-republicans/
These nutcases will stop at nothing to think they are right and they are now hailing Kim Davis as a martyr. They are deeply offended anyone can infringe on their ability to impose their religious beliefs on society (of course they would claim it is “religious freedom”).
Alistair knows no real logic and posts endless supplies of bullshit. This time he posted an article he didn’t even read.
Republicans are always offended when someone attacks their so called “religious freedoms”. Rather they are actually offended that people have said “enough is enough!” in response to religion being written into legislation.
This website had another crazy lunatic right wing conservative claiming she is offended about Disneyland and that they turn their son gay:
http://www.queerty.com/mom-tells-christian-host-disneyland-turned-her-teen-son-gay-speaks-in-tongues-20150911
So who are the ones so deeply offended all the time?
Alistair outplayed at his own stupid game!
onthemark
@Alistair Wiseman: If a lot of trans people were objecting to this costume (are they?), in that case we should take notice. It’s not all about Jenner, she’s not exactly representative, and there was no election to make her the official trans spokesperson, pope, union leader or whatever.
I wish that trans people would comment more here. A few months ago we had a “spoof” poster for awhile, who most of us figured out pretty quickly, was not really trans. S/he was just out to make trans people look bad. There ARE self-appointed, cisgender p.c. police, but the actual trans folk may have different beliefs. I notice this more as I meet more trans people in real life. They don’t necessarily, monolithically agree amongst themselves either.
Giancarlo is right that the vast majority of the “uber-sensitive” outrage comes from the religious right and the Republicans in general. (It’s amazing, however, he didn’t get that the Disneyland story is a JOKE, a parody. It’s not real! The article makes that very clear.)
onthemark
@Louis: Yikes. Did you read too much Faulkner in college? There’s a great new invention called the COMMA, it looks like this: ,
Giancarlo85
@onthemark: Again the reading comprehension is failing. I was addressing Alistair… as far as the article being a parody… who cares. Right wingers would follow the same kind of logic.
I apologized to you already. Get off my back.
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: Looking back at the history of the United States and conservatism I am curious; do YOU consider Judah P. Benjamin, (the vice-president of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis during the Civil War) a patriot or hypocrite in YOUR eyes.
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Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: The Confederacy was an illegal rebellion and there was no such thing as the Confederate government in any legitimate sense. The only President of the United States was Abraham Lincoln. Anything else was illegal and the central government, along with the real Patriots known as General Grant, Sherman, Meade and others did what they had to do.
Sherman is often maligned in the South but he had to preserve the nation at all costs. Benjamin was nothing more than a 19th century version of a terrorist. Glad to see many state governments in the South got rid of those terrorist confederate flags of bigotry and oppression.
At least this is my take.
Louis
@onthemark: You are a perpetual imbecile and of course the only response you have is some petty slam at how someone writes or enunciates their words.
Moron.
Continue to be an embarrassment you idiots calling people whiners and overly sensitive are the reason there is such a dissension within this community to begin with.
The irony is you fools are always annoyed when it comes to YOUR rights being trampled on or mocked yet if any other member whether bisexual lesbian or transgender has the same done to them its open season for fools like yourself.
Feel free to insult how I write simpleton since you cant even refute the truth about yourself and the aura that radiates off of people like you you are not worth my time in the first place.
Louis
@Alistair Wiseman: Your comment drips of bias against those who identify as liberals and that is your own intolerance being projected in that regard nothing more but certainly less.
Your political party hate to break to you is not without fault in any capacity id be here all day listing the cracks within the foundation of your specific political party .
As the old adage those those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Whether you actually are republican doesn’t really matter to me either your self righteous attitude trying to label and classify liberals as being the ones so easily offended or affected however does.
Giancarlo85
@Louis: Forget about offthemark. He won’t respond to any main point you make and will attack you for everything. The man thinks he is superior to everyone… He couldn’t even respond to me without attacking me once again.
Just ignore him.
onthemark
@Bob LaBlah: It looks like Alastair Dumbman isn’t going to respond to you, so can you tell us what was your point? At any rate, your factoid is wrong since Alexander Stephens was the VP of the Confederacy. (Benjamin was the Sec’y of State.)
onthemark
@Giancarlo85: (sigh) – It’s not an “attack” if someone simply points out that Queerty had a JOKE article and you hadn’t realized it was a JOKE.
It IS an attack to say someone has a “reading comprehension” problem simply for responding to a person who didn’t address him directly. And then you immediately, HYPOCRITICALLY, do the exact same thing by responding to LaBlah when he hadn’t addressed you. (Although I liked everything you said to him, it’s way, way off-topic from the subject of the Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume. Getting too far off-topic is, in itself, a violation of the comment policy.) As for the “main points,” I and others try – desperately at times – to respond to the main points OF THE ARTICLE while you generally insist on turning every comment thread into the Giancarlo Show.
onthemark
@Louis: I don’t mind if cisgender gay men are mocked. There’s a lot to mock.
But was I mocking trans people in my post? No, I wasn’t. I was refuting a few of Alastair Wiseguy’s ridiculous points, nothing more (or less).
Do you know any trans people in real life? Or do you just speak for them without their permission? Actually you never even say what you have decided for them. You just declare here, over and over and over, that you’re better than every other cisgender gay guy, so YOU should decide for them. Maybe they have other ideas… well, if you ever get around to saying what your plans for them ARE, but that might require commas (gasp) so maybe we’ll never know.
onthemark
To readers who missed last week’s show: it was wild. Yes it’s true, hell froze over, Giancarlo85 actually apologized to me last week!
Giancarlo totally forgot he’d bragged to us who his employer was, several times, several months ago. (Odd thing to forget.) And apparently, he forgot all about the existence of Google. (Millennials… go figure.) So suddenly he was terrified about getting fired – or sent to the company psychiatrist – for posting so much nasty vicious hateful bigoted insane dreck here that is so easily and permanently accessible via Google.
But I might as well admit: I really DID appreciate the apology.
Bob LaBlah
@onthemark: My point would require you to really think about the root of what I was getting at. I know damn well you have already figure out my “point” but if not reference back to the Exodus, conservatism and liberalism. Maybe that will help you “figure” it out.
onthemark
@Bob LaBlah: I agree with what Giancarlo told you, and you probably agree too, so maybe we can all agree to agree. 🙂
Giancarlo85
@onthemark: The point remains. Irony or not, parody or not, satire or not… it’s the same logic the right wing would use. I could have easily dug up on another article that was posted on here, but my point remains.
You never responded to the main point of my post, and you only pick apart one small part of it. This has to do with your tremendous ego and delusions of grandeur. You don’t amuse me anymore.
When I responded to LaBlah sure he wasn’t asking me, but I also addressed his question. I didn’t sidetrack. I also said “at least this is my take”.
@onthemark: I went too far with those comments and I’ll leave it at that. This has nothing to do with my employer. I’m changing jobs anyways. I’m not terrified of getting fired. Try to keep your extortionist comments to yourself. You don’t even know if I’m using my real name on here.
You’re a terrible bigot and my apology was more to the people in here in general. You made some incredibly NASTY remarks to me and you continue to do so. So consider my apology more to others on here and not to you. A user on here may actually have a condition they cannot control and I realize the comments I made could have been disrespectful to them.
You obviously don’t deserve an apology. You make three or four posts viciously attacking me and I’ll just leave it at that.
You have a serious chip on your shoulder. Time to get over it.
Giancarlo85
And you think everything is about you, offthemark… consider this… it isn’t always about you but about others. You’re a total jerk and I really can’t respond to you any longer. I suggest you seek some real help for your issues. With that, go ahead and respond (actually I’m 100% certain you’ll post another three or four posts in response to what I have said)… I’ve lost interest. Sorry. You’re boring me.
meghanada
Jenner can afford to display composure and sense of humor only because of her “privilege”? I didn’t know money could buy emotional stupor. As someone who’s poorer and less white than Jenner, I also didn’t know that’d require me to be in a state of constant outrage. Thank you Tumblrinas who’ve taken the time to share the Word on this cis-scum white gay male blog.
And kudos to Jenner, too. As a 60-something woman, she’s a mature lady. And me, as a 27-year-old, I find it commendable that, in this youth-worshiping culture of ours, she can put beneath her the outrage-mongering of her queer critics who seem omnipotent on social media, but who are nothing but teens and post-teenagers who lack her life experience, young people who out of from idleness take up the job of being full-time political and social commentators with the superficiality and fanaticism that is typical of youngsters.
meghanada
@Louis: “The irony is you fools are always annoyed when it comes to YOUR rights being trampled on or mocked”
Hon, whatever that costume is, it is not a violation of anyone’s rights. The fact that you’d think of frame it that way, just goes to show to me that you deserve to be mocked and be taken light of. There’s no greater medicine to the outrage mongering of Perpetually Offended Crusaders than a display of humor that refuses to take itself – and them – seriously. Believe me, there are issues more deserving of your angry yelling than a Halloween costume.
Giancarlo85
“Cis-scum white gay male blog”? And you can see why you’re not making any friends on here.
First off, many of us who post on here are not white. So keep your emotional knee reactions to yourself.
I have no problem with Jenner. The only thing she needs to change are her ridiculous political views. But other than that, don’t really care much for her. She doesn’t speak for the trans community.
meghanada
@Giancarlo85: Learn to spot sarcasm, you aspie.
McShane
@Giancarlo85:
I thought you quit Queerty. Yet here you are, bitching and moaning about being viciously attacked.
Bob LaBlah
@onthemark: Touche’.
onthemark
@Giancarlo85: “You never responded to the main point of my post…”
Because I totally agreed with the main point of your post. It’s always amusing when you complain that I’m not responding ENOUGH to your posts. Make up your mind!
“When I responded to LaBlah sure he wasn’t asking me, but I also addressed his question.”
When I responded to Wiseman sure he wasn’t asking me, about that very minor point, but you sure flipped out about it. Again, make up your mind. It wasn’t a big deal and I was trying NOT to be confrontational. But you went batsh*t crazy insane, as usual.
When was I ever a “bigot” here? You say that from time to time with absolutely no evidence. (I gave plenty of examples last week of YOU being a bigot.) I do recall once writing that you seem to be a very ungrateful immigrant, always bitching (Tsarnaev-style) about everything here. And I doubt there are many Queerty readers who’d disagree with that assessment.
“This is my last post on this site.” – Giancarlo85, Sept. 8, 2015. Followed of course by three more posts later that hour. And then you return three days later! Dude, if you feel so oppressed here, and you feel you’re being treated so-o-o-o unfairly, nobody is stopping you from leaving.
Good job “ignoring” me, btw.
Giancarlo85
I’m not bitching and I decided I will stay. Just ignore the pest.
Anyways, peace out. I will respond to other posters.
Giancarlo85
And wow he really flipped out comparing me to a terrorist. Now I know he is mentally imbalanced. Good luck with that line of thought and remember your opinion of me doesn’t amount to shit.
Peace out!
Alistair Wiseman
@Giancarlo85:
Thank you for using examples in your post. Not enough people use examples to further explain and show their point. Unfortunately, your examples are the downfall of your post.
You stated, “Republicans are always offended when someone attacks their so called “religious freedoms” and referenced Kim Davis with a linked article.
Are you really equating a transgender Halloween costume to religious freedom?
There are as many conservatives that do not support Kim Davis as there are who support her. Kim Davis is not the defining issue, but religious freedom certainly is. You remember Freedom of Religion; it’s in the First Admendment and the reason British settlers formed North American colonies to escape religious persecution in Europe which eventually became the United States of America.
If you think Americans standing up for their First Admendment rights is equivalent to people taking offense to a Halloween costume and other trivial nonsense, you have bigger problems than I thought.
How about comparing apples to apples.
Alistair Wiseman
@Giancarlo85:
As for your second link that you posted from Queerty, you have been informed that you got it wrong and it was actually a joke. For the sake of argument, let’s say you got it right and some woman thought Disneyland and its environs was making her son gay.
There are lone loons on both the left and the right. There are people who still think that Elvis is alive. This is the example you are going to give me when I site for you a major left wing website that has posted a serious article on the “horribly offensive new costume on the horizon.”
Again – apples to apples, oranges to oranges.
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: There was no downfall in my post. I referenced myself with evidence. You have never done such a thing. You are a liar and you didn’t debunk a single thing I have said.
Religious freedom? What religious freedom? Conservatives are just mad they can’t push their religion onto others anymore. This has nothing to do with religious freedom. You really don’t use your small mind that often. There is freedom of religion, but conservatives want to have an ability to push religion into government. So this is where your argument totally and utterly collapses on its face. You have failed miserably in supporting yourself and you misinterpreted their real intentions.
Conservatives don’t care about the Constitution. They only care about themselves and limiting the rights of others. So this is where my argument absolutely succeeds. First amendment rights? How about the part you braindead conservatives forget about government not making laws that endorse religion? You are the one with major problems. And you don’t know anything about the Constitution.
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: And the idiot crackpot continues. I didn’t get anything wrong in my argument. There are dozens of other links. You are nothing more than a delusional fringe idiot who has no real argument and you cannot even address what I said.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
I know little about Judah P. Benjamin, what little I know, I don’t consider him a patriot or a hypocrite.
How does this relate to being easily offended and Caitlyn Jenner?
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: You probably consider George Wallace and Joseph McCarthy as personal heroes. Just admit it already.