Let me start this review by saying I like Bruce Jenner and I like Caitlyn. It's too easy to criticise and hate but we all have to play with the cards that life deals us, and in a way this programme invites you to look deeper into the human psyche and the struggles human souls face and how we relate to one another. That said, I feel really sorry for Caitlyn. Bruce was unhappy and I'm sorry to say that Caitlyn looks unhappy. Compared to the trans women on the show (candace, chandi..) who appear so relaxed, Cait sticks out like the odd one out. I think Bruce was always a loner and as he says in his own words, he didn't fit in with the boys and didn't fit in with the girls. I'm sorry to say that he doesn't look like he fits in with trans women either. It's interesting in the show when he keeps referring to the trans women as "they" and compliments that "they've achieved so much", at which point his trans friend embarrassingly has to remind him again that it's "we". I believe Bruce was struggling and chose transgenderism as an escape to the boundaries in his own psyche. But since he never really dealt with why he had the inner turmoil to begin with, it seems the problems have just passed onto Cait. The irony is that as transgenderism is accepted more into the mainstream, Cait becomes less of the outcast and has to deal with relating to people as normal again which is what her real struggle was to start with. As an aside, what is the big deal with gender? So Bruce hasn't changed his genitalia, dresses as a woman, likes male activities and likes women, yet it's so important that the world calls him a woman. It seems he's gone from being a very masculine man to being a masculine "tomboy" lesbian trans woman. Surely it would have been easier to just call himself a transvestite man. Anyway I wish Caitlyn all the best. I hope she finds herself and can be truly happy.
