Good luck to him and well done and all that, but why is this front page news for The Guardian?
A minor sportsman you've never heard of says he's gay.
Wow!
Is it the sheer seeming incongruity to their editors?
"He's a boxer, too - a gay man, imagine!"
Like boxing isn't an even gayer sport than diving.
Subtext: "Like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all" - Samuel Johnson, 1764.
So brave etc etc.
I love being patronised, me.
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Is it patronising?
ReplyDeleteIt's a supposedly left-wing paper, isn't it?
Maybe they feel reporting it, given the climate of homophobia still, is a political statement, which surely is the main reasons for the gay press going overboard on these sorts of stories?
One the one hand you argue that the media are as thick as pigshit and just resort to lazy unthinking churnalism and then often argue that there's a subtext behind much of what they do that belies this apparent ineptitude and laziness.
Maybe their reporting of anything gay is just lazy can't-be-arsed apolitical journos going "Oh that sounds like news, let's print it!"?
^^^ "Is it patronising?
DeleteIt's a supposedly left-wing paper, isn't it?
Maybe they feel reporting it, given the climate of homophobia still, is a political statement, which surely is the main reasons for the gay press going overboard on these sorts of stories?"
Can you think of an actual UK gay news story that broke yesterday they could have put on the front page?
Hard one, I know...
So your argument is that a large portion of the front page of a national newspaper was given to this story purely because The Guardian is non-plussed by the fact a boxer can be gay???
DeleteReally?
The fact they didn't put another story on the front does not support your assertion.
Don't you think two gay men winning a court case against some Christian bigot, and then the leader of Britain's leading neo-Nazi party threatening to send the boys round, was a bit more important?
DeleteI think a paper that gives such prominence on its cover to Taylor Swift and Example probably thinks the "gay boxer" story is of more interest to its target readership.
DeleteHe's sexier, for one thing. :)
There's a rumour he's not actually gay.
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