There's a good piece on The Guardian's Comment Is Free by Philip Dayle today; 'Sexuality, Privacy and the Ethics of Innuendo'."President Obama's new chief of staff is a "cat-loving bachelor". Homeland security chief Janet Napolitano sports a buzz-cut hairstyle. Both she and new supreme court justice Elena Kagan are referred to as "childless and unmarried" – and auspiciously not "single" – the distinction being the subject of an op-ed piece by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. These stories have fuelled suspicions of homosexual orientation about these American public officials..."
Ah yes, I remember reading an op-ed yesterday about Peter Rouse, President Obama's new chief of staff, that described him as a "cat-loving bachelor" in the second sentence, and simply shuddering.
It was by Ed Pilkington in The Guardian.
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