I saw this and shook my head. More of the same. Until men stop using preconceived masculinity and male gender roles as instruments of bashing one another, how can we expect women to stop? Excerpt:
'It’s not just that Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like Arthur Sulzberger, or doesn’t think he’s a serious newspaper publisher. It’s that he think he’s weak—girly. Sulzberger—“young Arthur”—was a frequent subject during the many hours I talked to Murdoch when I was writing his biography. Sulzberger was always, for Murdoch, a punch line. Murdoch even mimicked him in a way to suggest … well … a certain lack of manhood.
It is a joke that is shared by Murdoch and Robert Thomson, the former Australian-rules football player who is now the editor of Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal: Arthur is a sort of poofter*.
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Without a doubt, the Wall Street Journal has selected Arthur Sulzberger as a prime example of its idea of a feminine-looking man.
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So just imagine what Young Arthur felt this morning when he saw the lower quadrant of his face in the Journal representing the archetypal girly-man.
This is a psychological warfare side of what’s going to be a very nasty newspaper war.'
*I wonder if Vanity Fair understands that "poofter" as a word may not be seen as any big deal here in the US (in fact many American may not even know what it's supposed to mean) but has a very serious negative connotation against male homosexuals in other parts of the world. Maybe they do know and just don't care.
