It's been a wild ride for Caitlyn Jenner this year, first being involved in a fatal car crashed that took the life of one person, later coming out as transgender to Diane Sawyer and then officially introducing herself as Caitlyn after being Bruce her whole life - but as awards pack in for the former athlete, Caitlyn Jenner's Glamour award wasn't well received.
Months back, Jenner made her first public appearance at the ESPY awards, where she received the prestigious Arthur Ashe Courage Award for coming out as transgender, and now, getting another prize for her recent struggle, the Caitlyn Jenner Glamour Woman of the Year Award, there has been recent backlash.
According to The Washington Post, the most prominent criticism came from James Smith, the widower of 9/11 hero Moira Smith, who FedExed his wife's posthumous award after Caitlyn Jenner's Glamour honor, asking whether there was "no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man."
CNN reports that Smith's problem wasn't that a transgender person received the honor, but rather how, for him, Caitlyn Jenner's Glamour award was "part of the Kardashian circus," referring to Jenner's involvement in "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," then clarifying that he'd worked with impoverished transgender youths in New York City that didn't have Jenner's luxuries.
In all, Smith seemingly believed Caitlyn Jenner's Glamour award, and her whole stance, was part of a publicity stunt - he particularly expressed his disdain over Jenner's recent joke that the hardest part of being a woman was figuring out her outfits.
According to The Daily Mail, actress and outspoken feminist Rose McGowan also criticized those words, saying they diminished the true struggles women have to go through in their lives in the fight for equality.
"Woman of the year? No, not until you wake up and join the fight," McGowan said in a Facebook post about Caitlyn Jenner's Glamour award that has since been deleted. "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."
