If anything has been trending in the Nigerian online community asides questions on where one can buy fuel for N87 and who the latest local celebrity to be bashed for posting something on twitter is, it’s Bru- sorry, Caitlyn Jenner. Who was once Bruce Jenner, and now looks hotter than his ex-wife and co-queen of the Kardashian empire, Kris Jenner (who in my opinion, should have been the one to get the sex change. Seriously she looks like a man. Won’t be surprised if she shows up on TV with beard, telling us there was a man hidden inside her all along…).

While most Nigerians are preoccupied with shouting “tufiakwa” and proclaiming that such a thing can never happen in our country, others are wondering why it’s even news at all. Because, let’s face it, although over here, we don’t get to hear news of someone deciding he really wants boobs at 66, it’s not completely strange in medical circles to hear of gender reassignment and sex change procedures. This means Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is far from a trail blazer. So why is this particular case such big news?

Of course, there’s Caitlyn’s (really, I can’t keep typing Bruce/Caitlyn. Or I can do a Brangelina and use Brucelyn instead) PR’s reason – using herself as an example for all other people who are struggling with identity issues and need inspiration to overcome their fear of going to ask a doctor to attach boobs on them so they can wear heels and skimpy dresses. Awww, that’s so sweet, I got diabetes reading it. But we’re smarter than that and we know that –

1) There’s a lot of money to be made from this: Let’s face it, the news of a celebrity deciding they didn’t want to be their sex any more is big news. Sometimes big enough to send real news like earthquakes and ISIS to the back page. It’s the type of news that sells papers and magazines and, trust me, for all the sensationalism it has gathered, international media is pretty grateful to Bruce Jenner for deciding to become a woman. At least Vanity Fair is, if not any other outfit. And why not? Bruce Jenner is (was – this thing has even affected English Language usage) an Olympic medallist and a celebrity in his own right. That’s the kind of news that sells.

2) It’s Bruce Jenner: Asides appearing to be little more than furniture on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, not many Nigerians know who Bruce Jenner was. He was quite a bit of a celebrity since representing the United States, winning gold and setting a world record at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal. Unlike Nigeria, Americans actually remember people like that. His claim to fame was even made stronger by his marriage to Kris Jenner (though that ended this year). So he’s as big a celebrity as they come, and it’s only natural that his choice to grow a pair somewhere else is also big news.

3) The Kardashian Connection: The Kardashian family may be the most famous family that nobody’s actually sure how their fame happened, but anyone closely involved with them is set for the limelight. The way the Obamas are the American First Family is the way the Kardashians are America’s First Drama Family. So all those years of being the man of the house (ironic now, isn’t it?) means one would simply not want to miss how the Kardashian clan would react to news of his decision to become a woman and find out just how many buckets Kim would cry (surprisingly, none). And we know how everything Kardashian is blown out of proportion, so this was rather expected.

You know what would be even bigger news though? Kanye West coming out as gay (which, come to think of it, he has already been rumoured to be. Hmmm….)

http://gidicentral.com/blog/2015/06/12/why-caitlyn-jenner-is-such-big-news/

Brucelyn the very sexy she-male...

Atk01:
Brucelyn the very sexy she-male...

I'm curious, are there still ba,lls in there? cos it looks pretty flat.

senbonzakurakageyoshi:


I'm curious, are there still ba,lls in there? cos it looks pretty flat.

Probably not, ba,lls have been replaced with bo,obs.

Nice article but I thought U would point out some more obscure facts. These three are kinda obvious.

He/She disgust Me...
When is he/she taking off the teenie weenie off for good sef