Reality of Hate

"I Am Jazz."  I've never watched the show.  A few days ago, I saw a commercial for, I guess, the new season.  Jazz mentions that she's gained a bit of weight.  I glanced up at the TV and thought to myself, "she's grown into a pretty young lady."

Sitting at the computer and drawing tonite, I took a minute to flip thru the on-screen TV guide to see if there was anything on better than what was on the current channel.  I decided to check out TLC.  I noticed that "I Am Jazz" was going to come on at the top of the hour, so I set that channel and went back to drawing while listening to the show that was on at the time.

The episode was recapping her journey thru to bottom surgery.  The episode also highlighted some of the bigotry and vile rhetoric that's been hurled at Jazz...some of which was laced with threats.  It blew me away.  I guess because she's a reality TV star, I wasn't expecting it.  I guess that was pretty stupid on my part.  None the less....it hurt.  And of course, I can't begin to imagine what that does to her parents.  For a moment, I debated whether I wanted to watch the rest of the show.  I decided to stick with it.

It would be nice to see how she fared with the surgery (that's how the episode tonite ended - with Jazz in surgery) since apparently there were several issues.  It would be nice to see her happiness.  But I dunno if I want to see more hate.  Maybe with tonite's episode being a re-cap of sorts, the concentration of ignorance, insensitivity and transphobia was more than what would normally be in a regular episode.  Least ways, that's sorta what I'm hoping is the case.

I know things are changing.  Slowly.  But it's still clear that haters still teach their kids to be haters.  There will alway be a new generation of haters.  Though I've never really cared for most reality shows, I'd like to see some more of this one, more about Jazz - but not the other crap.  We'll see......