Rose McGowan Slams Caitlyn Jenner for Fashion Comment
Rose McGowan (Getty Images)
Caitlyn Jenner certainly has her detractors — and apparently Rose McGowan is one of them.
The I Am Cait star gave a heartfelt speech while being honored as the Transgender Champion at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards on Nov. 9, but a comment she made backstage during a subsequent interview has the one-timed Charmed actress fired up. Buzzfeed asked Jenner, 66, what the hardest part of being a woman has been for her, to which she replied:
“The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear. It’s always that way; I never thought it would come to this. I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style — I learned as much as I possibly could. But, it’s more than that. I’m kind of at this point in my life where I’m trying to figure this womanhood thing out. It is more than hair, makeup, clothes, all that kind of stuff. There’s an element here that I’m still kind of searching for. And I think that’ll take a while. Because I think as far as gender, we’re all on a journey. We’re all learning and growing about ourselves. And I feel the same way.”
McGowan took exception to Jenner’s answer, saying that being a woman is more than the outfit one slips over her head in the morning. In a post on her Facebook page, which has since been deleted, the Grindhouse actress, 42, came out swinging against the transgender star:
“Caitlyn Jenner you do not understand what being a woman is about at all. You want to be a woman and stand with us- well learn us. We are more than deciding what to wear. We are more than the stereotypes foisted upon us by people like you. You’re a woman now? Well f****** learn that we have had a VERY different experience than your life of male privilege. Woman of the year? No, not until you wake up and join the fight. Being a woman comes with a lot of baggage. The weight of unequal history. You’d do well to learn it. You’d do well to wake up. Woman of the year? Not by a long f****** shot.”
McGowan faced backlash for the post, which she then added to before deleting it all together:
“Let me amend this by saying I’m happy for what she’s doing visibility wise for the trans community, and I’m happy she’s living her truth, but comments like hers have consequences for other women. How we are perceived, what our values are, and leads to more stereotyping. If you know you are going to be speaking to media about being a woman, maybe come to understand our struggles.”
Jenner has yet to comment but it’s almost like: get in line. She has been dealing with critics since before she even confirmed her transition and has been rather elegant handling them all.
The most recent noise has been coming from a man named James Smith, who returned his wife Moira Smith’s posthumous Glamour Women of the Year Award to the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Cindi Leive, because it was “insulting” to his spouse’s memory. “Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?” he wanted to know.
This isn’t the first time McGowan has made headlines for her feminist social media posts. Last year, she attacked the LGBT community for failing to campaign for women, saying, “Gay men are more misogynistic than straight men.” In another instance, she shamed Adam Sandler for a sexist casting call.
