Bruce Jenner’s eldest child had something very interesting to say about their strained father/daughter relationship and about finally meeting his female alter ego: “We didn't talk for years, and now we see each other every couple of weeks and talk on the phone, which I am grateful for…She [Jenner] is trying harder and there is a softness to Caitlyn that is new to me.” Though this may not seem related: according to PornMD, the most searched for pornographic term in every US State is MILF. Now, America is obsessed with 67 year old Jenner and mommy porn. This twin fascination goes part and parcel with the observation made by Jenner’s daughter: in a very real sense, Jenner has become the ultimate man by appearing as a woman. It’s a peculiar neurosis almost exclusive to modern industrial societies in which the family has gone through catastrophic change. The father, the most frequently absent figure in the family, is feared and or emasculated – hence the rise in the metrosexual male; masculinity only survives in gay culture where it is worshiped as a demigod; therefore certain sensitive boys who grew up without male role models are instinctively drawn to homosexuality as it holds out the promise of manhood. Consequently, woman are pulled towards weak men or become frustrated when their partners react differently from their girlfriends; in contemporary America, the must-have female accessory is the ubiquitous gay friend: the non-threatening male who listens. In the midst of this chaos, men have symbolically, and tragically, withdrawn and returned to the mother in the form of MILF porn. But, like the female artifice of Jenner, this is an illusion – fantasy has become reality.
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