With Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce, showing off her new female body on the cover of Vanity Fair, Jon Stewart was preparing for the worst. "It's especially brave of Caitlyn Jenner to do this publicly, because we all know the media," he said on Tuesday's Daily Show. "They're awful, and now we're going to have to listen to a lot of people saying awful things about this." Except that, with few exceptions, people said really nice, welcoming things.
Stewart was pleasantly surprised, for a moment. "It's really heartening to see that everyone is willing to not only accept Caitlyn Jenner as a woman, but to waste no time in treating her like a woman," he said, and that's not all good. It was a small jump from congratulations to ogling, then comparing Jenner's sexual allure to other Hollywood women. While we're at it, Stewart sighed, "why don't we throw in a little slut-shaming with a dash of 'Eh, she's probably not that hot in person'?" And they did. You can watch below. Peter Weber
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