Boycotting Chaz

Since Chaz Bono was announced as a cast member on this season's Dancing With the Stars some knuckleheads have been calling for a boycott of the show. That'a ironic isn't it? They want to boycott someone because they don't like the fact they felt more like a boy than a girl and did something about it.

Where were these easily offended people when Kate was subjecting pretty little Tony Dovolani to abuse in the specially constructed studio DTWS set up in her Pennsylvania home? Now that was something to complain about. Where were these people when Mark Ballas was having to haul Bristol Palin's fat Alaskan Carcass across the dance floor a couple seasons ago? Voting! That's what. You know the same lame-brained people who voted for Kate and Bristol week after week are the very ones complaining about Chaz.

I doubt many of us can truly understand the pain that transgendered people go through in our society. I made the supreme sacrifcice and actually tuned into the Oprah Winfrey Network to watch Becoming Chaz, the documentary about Chaz's journey to become a man and I have to say he really impressed me as a very genuine person who had struggled with his identity.

Compare that to the hypocrisy of "I'm just a
simple mother," Kate. Yeah right. The only reason Kate enrolled her kids in gymnastics class was so they could learn how to form the pyramid so she could climb the ladder to the top. (Until her ratings fell, Thank goodness!)

But even Kate doesn't reach the level of hypocrisy of Bristol Palin, a girl with an affinity for the back of pickup trucks,  who finds herself pregnant and then decides to become a spokesperson for abstinence. Then she had the nerve to declare that she didn't want to wear revealing outfits. At least America should have been glad for that. I think the dimwitted Levi Johnston was the only man in America that wanted to see Bristol in anything peek-a-boo. (We can blame the exposure to too much cold air up in the Alaskan frontier for that temorary lack of judgement I suppose)

Maybe ABC was banking on controversy to keep the ratings up. I hope so. I suffered through Kate and Bristol but the truth is as long as they keep dressing the guys in tight pants and plunging tops I was going to tune in anyway.