{"id":29119,"date":"2015-04-24T23:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T03:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=29119"},"modified":"2015-04-25T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T04:10:53","slug":"bruce-jenner-the-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-the-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Jenner: The Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Diane Sawyer&#8217;s interview with Bruce Jenner*, Sawyer referred to one of Jenner&#8217;s post-Olympian books, in which he wrote that everyone should have a one-sentence mission statement.\u00a0 Sawyer said Bruce defined his mission statement now as &#8220;to provide understanding and tolerance toward people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Bruce can pat himself on the back because he did an amazing job of increasing tolerance with tonight&#8217;s good-humored, two-hour interview about his transition from male to female.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=30570133' width='640' height='360' scrolling='no' style='border:none;'><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\">ABC Breaking US News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\/video\">US News Videos<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was keeping an eye on Twitter and, of course, there was plenty of the knee-jerk negativity that&#8217;s aimed at transgender people. But I was impressed by the number of viewers who said that they were moved to tears by the obvious emotional pain Bruce had suffered, even if they couldn&#8217;t relate to his experience. (&#8220;I&#8217;ve done nothing but apologize for my entire life,&#8221; he said at one point.) A lot of those commenters didn&#8217;t seem like existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2014\/05\/23\/civilities-what-does-the-acronym-lgbtq-stand-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQ allies<\/a>, but like people who were feeling a new empathy &#8212; developing &#8220;an open mind and an open heart,&#8221; to use Bruce&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>I got choked up at the recorded message from Bruce&#8217;s 89-year-old mother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/bruce-jenner-mom-speaks-out-transgender\" target=\"_blank\">Esther<\/a>. Esther said she used to think that she couldn&#8217;t be any prouder of Bruce than she was in Montreal in 1976, when he won the Olympic gold medal for the decathlon &#8230; but now she <em>is<\/em> even prouder. <\/p>\n<p>I was also moved by the video of that athletic triumph. It showed two of Bruce&#8217;s opponents on the ground, writhing in pain from their exertions, while Bruce didn&#8217;t just stay on his feet &#8212; he ran a damn victory lap. I hope that he feels that fleet and free again, now that he is unburdened of his lifelong secret.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>*ABC said that Bruce did ask to be referred to as Bruce and &#8220;he&#8221; and &#8220;him&#8221; for this, his last television interview as a man. He didn&#8217;t announce what female name he will use. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Diane Sawyer&#8217;s interview with Bruce Jenner*, Sawyer referred to one of Jenner&#8217;s post-Olympian books, in which he wrote that everyone should have a one-sentence mission statement.\u00a0 Sawyer said Bruce defined his mission statement now as &#8220;to provide understanding and tolerance toward people.&#8221; Well, Bruce can pat himself on the back because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/bruce-jenner-the-interview\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-celebrities","7":"category-tv","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29140,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions\/29140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}