Selena Roberts: I think Whitlock was trying to out me; Chass is an old grump

Beyond the question of an attempted outing, it's laughable to think that straight women understand men or that men understand women.

 

Maybe Whitlock and Chass simply thought it was a mean-spirited, loosely sourced and poorly executed book?

Why doesn't she deal with those genuine criticisms instead of going back to the pop psychology?

 

BINGO!!!

 

You should listen to the podcast. She does her best to address many of those questions.

 

I haven't read the A-rod book. Can't comment. I do know Selena has been a class act the few times I've talked to her.

 

When did Selena officially come out? I mean, it's been known in NY and NJ media circles for years, but nobody ever talked or giggled about it.
The circumstances probably would have made an interesting page 6 item, so its a credit to the people who knew the ins-and-outs that nobody took it to the gossip pages.
Years ago there was some confusion when she told her editors she had to move to Denver because of a boyfriend, and everyone knew that wasn't exactly right. But the move got the Times plenty of pre-2002 SLC Olympic stories. They got their worth out of Selena. It's pretty low to see the NYT trying to attack her now.

 

Find it hard to argue with the premise that Chass has become a grump. If I'd been through what he's been through, I'd be one, too, but nonetheless the label fits.

 

I agree.

 

But it's so much easier to just attack any reporter who nails a baseball player for steroid use without bothering to get all the facts.

 

I am not a big podcast fan. I wish he would post a transcription.

 

I can't open the link to the podcast, so this is just based on the Deadspin summary and what has been posted here:

In the absence of Whitlock calling her an 'angry lesbian' (as opposed to an 'angry feminist') her response comes off as defensive and victimized.

I know plenty of devoutly hetero women who are routinely called 'angry feminists,' as if the two words are inexorably bound together by definition.

I don't know how you 'out' someone who is already out, which I believe she has been for some years, at least among those who know her or her partner. I don't know why anyone else would care.

That said, however, I can't possibly see what feminism, angry or otherwise, has to do with this book.