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John Waters: ‘We can’t make fun of Bruce Jenner?’

John Waters: ‘We can’t make fun of Bruce Jenner?’
John Waters
John Waters

“The Bruce Jenner/Caitlyn thing is kind of old hat to me. I had a transgender woman in Pink Flamingos. She had breasts and a penis. She got the operation that week. That was radical to me then. Caitlyn’s a Republican, she’s on a reality show, and she’s a Kardashian. We can’t make fun of him or her?”

— John Waters, speaking to The Spectator, in which Jasper Rees writes, “While the rest of the world ties itself in knots in order not to fall foul of PC/LGBT lexical updates, Waters happily alludes to Vanity Fair’s post-op cover star as Bruce instead of Caitlyn.”

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