Glenn Beck on Bruce Jenner: "we’re all just supposed to blindly accept no genders?"

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Swell guy he is. He opened his segment about the Jenner interview with his typical smarmy, smooth-talking pseudo-charm:

GLENN: Could I ask if we can do something as adults, as Americans, that we just don’t do anymore, and that is have an open and honest conversation about a really sensitive subject, without hating each other, without throwing stones at each other. Just ask some honest questions, and really try to understand one another. There’s this superhyped Diane Sawyer interview everyone is waiting for tonight, I guess, Bruce Jenner. He was spotted the other day wearing a dress, smoking a cigarette, in a full length dress. Quite honestly, I don’t care what Bruce Jenner does. It does not affect my life at all. So if Bruce Jenner wants to be a woman, he wants to dress as a woman, he wants to change his sexuality, doesn’t matter to me. It doesn’t matter to me.

And what exactly does Beck consider an "open and honest conversation" and "honest questions?" The typical PRATT "restroom argument" and woe-is-me whining about how Keith Ablow was rightfully mocked and laughed at for transphobic remarks:

So I’m going to try to have a real, open, honest conversation with you about this and about transgendereddism. I don’t pretend to understand it. I don’t understand it...What frightens me is if you don’t blindly embrace, not just accept it, if you don’t blindly embrace it, you are vilified and destroyed, an I think this is dangerous. I would say that about anything, anything. It’s not just transgendereddism. A good friend of mine, Keith Ablow, has almost been destroyed...A year or so ago, he wrote, I don’t see anything but toxicity from the notion of a person with a female anatomy feeling free to use the urinal in a boy’s restroom while a boy stand next to her and uses one too. Well, he was viciously attacked. He was called a quack and worse, and he’s not. He is a good, decent man.

Because he dared say that there were two genders, he was torn to pieces. Honest question: Who is the science denier here? Are there two genders? Or is everything fluid? And can anyone really claim that the bathroom situation is not a legitimate concern? This is new territory for humankind. So we’re taking — we should be taking baby steps and not runs towards anything, because we don’t know. And we want to make sure we don’t hurt people along the way. Either those who want to be transgendered or those who do not want to be transgendered. We don’t want to do damage either way.

But are you telling me we all have is just blindly accept and embrace a male using a female bathroom and a female using a male bathroom, and then just — we’re all just supposed to blindly accept no genders. There’s just go genders. You are not allowed to see any difference between a man and a woman. Now, this is a conversation that we can have as adults, and we should have, and we have to have as adults. And this is the situation with Bruce Jenner. Like I said, it doesn’t matter to me. What happens with me doesn’t matter, because Bruce Jenner — whatever, man. Whatever. I’m an adult, he’s an adult. I’m worried about our children. And NBC now is running a series on transgendered children, a series on this. Children.

Hey Glenn, Ablowhard is the science denier.

The fact that AM radio squawkers like Beck succeed by letting millions simple-minded Americans be proud of being willfully ignorant is a gigantic obstacle in the battle against homophobia.

[Arugula Latte]

1. So it doesn't matter to him, but he's all worked up about it. He's worried about "the children."

Got it, Glenn.

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2. The typical anti-LGBT emotional appeal: "CHILDREN".

In other words, they're afraid that acceptance of gays = children will think it's cool to be gay "for the heck of it", or children won't grow up with the same backwards heteronormative POV of previous generations!

[alphafemale]

3. These stunt minds go straight to the genitals.

And what people are doing with them.

Rather than the humanity of a person.

[LittleBlue]

4. No, Glenn. We are asking you to respect trans people and their choices

You don't have to be respectful, you have the right to be an asshole in a free country. Carry on

[Politicalboi]

5. I always see men hanging around women's restrooms

Trying to push each other in, and getting caught. Then taking women who pass by into the men's room. Oh wait, that was in elementary school.

[gordianot]

6. When people sometimes claim it does not matter to them it does.

So Glen I know you are concerned about Bruce you will have to recover and live with his choice. Bruce may not notice you but I am sure there are others who notice Glen Beck.