14 DAY TRIAL // Rapper Waka Flocka Flame (real name Juaquin James Malphurs) is speaking out against Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, in an interview with The Breakfast Club. Jenner is widely considered a modern-age hero for making her transition from male to female public, and thus highlighting very important issues for the LGBT community.
As the rapper sees it, Caitlyn doesn’t exist. Jenner might have her own successful docuseries and she might have been welcomed with open arms by the media and the general public, but he is still Bruce. The only difference is that he’s now wearing a dress, makeup and nail polish.
You are who God makes you at birth
The 29-year-old rapper says in the interview, which is already getting backlash on social media for being transphobic, that, while not a deeply religious man, he is God-fearing. And he believes that we all are who God makes us at birth, not who we choose to become later on, when we get bored with our identities.
“I ain't saying nothing against Bruce Jenner. You follow me?,” he says. “'You are who you are when God made you, not who you became after he did. That's how I feel. You rebuking God, man. God didn't put them feelings in you. That is the devil playing tricks on your mind, that's a test from God. If you can't out-beat that one task and you believe that, then you're going to believe everything else and you're going down that way.”
In other words, he acknowledges Jenner’s identity struggle but dismisses it by saying that he should have fought harder to overcome it, because it was there to tempt him.
Clearly, to the rapper, Jenner is a lost cause and he can’t help but feel sorry for all the young girls and boys watching Jenner’s story play out in the media, getting such warm praises and support.
The media is out to destroy traditional gender roles
The media (television, in particular) is also to blame for the way gender roles are challenged and being re-interpreted, the rapper says in the same interview.
Women are no longer women and men are no longer men, because girls are taught they’re supposed to want to be more in life than just wives who cook and keep house for their men, he argues.
There was nothing wrong with this established order of things, but the media wants to change it. They’re doing so mostly on television, because they know that only young people watch TV anymore, and in the process, they’re perverting young minds.
Waka Flocka Flame brands the practice pure “evil.”