The New York Times outs Roger Federer. Fed is soooooooo gay!
ocea
ocea
Did the New York Times out Roger Federer?
David Foster Wallace's much-hyped article on Roger Federer for the New
York Times "Play" magazine is now available online (hat tip to Off The
Baseline.) However, what interests me is this description of Federer's
fiancee, "girlfriend Mirka [Vavrinec, a former women’s Top-100 player,
knocked out by injury, who now basically functions as Federer’s Alice
B. Toklas]." (text bolded by MadProfessah.)
In case you were unaware, Alice B. Toklas was the longtime companion
of celebrated American author Gertrude Stein. They were (and are)
famous lesbian icons. It is an interesting analogy chosen by such an
accomplished and prolix wordsmith as David Foster Wallace. Toklas was
famous for basically two things: 1) being the pre-eminent love of
Stein's life and 2) the person who basically self-subjugated her needs
to take care of Stein's.
Well, clearly Mirka has similarly sublimated her tennis career goals
to be Roger Federer's girlfriend, travelling companion and business
manager so that aspect of her relationship to Federer is similar to
Alice B. Toklas' relationship to Stein. But how should one parse the
same-sex imagery invoked by declaring that Roger Federer's companion
is similar to a famously frumpy lesbian?
MadProfessah is reminded of the popular gay quiz from years ago: "Gay,
or Eurotrash?" popularized by Blair magazine. Is David Foster Wallace
intimating that Roger Federer is gay? Or just European? He does, after
all, in the rest of the article use the word "beautiful" to describe
Federer, whichis an awfully unusual word for one heterosexual male to
describe a world-class heterosexual male athlete. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted by Mad Professah at 8/22/2006 08:02:00 AM
http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-new-york-times-out-roger-federer.html
thunder...@gmail.com
Why don't you stick your finger up your ass and tell us which way the
winds blowing? All the politicians the NYT supports do it.
Have a good day moron
cheers
John P
"But how should one parse the same-sex imagery invoked by declaring that
Roger Federer's companion is similar to a famously frumpy lesbian?"
well, I would defer to your child psychiatrist, but my guess is you'll
just have to wait until you become an adult, at which point such an
analogy won't "invoke same-sex imagery."
John Doe
> ocea wrote:
...
> well, I would defer to your child psychiatrist, but my guess is
> you'll just have to wait until you become an adult, at which point
> such an analogy won't "invoke same-sex imagery."
The troll is upset, because Roger Federer is turning ocea's
predictions of Rogers demise into mud.
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