This reminds me of gay couples before legal marriage, where when one was hospitalized or died, the family would swoop in, take everything, and block the life partner from ever getting near their loved one again.
The cops caught the asshole.
on Saturday (11 June), Sydney Morning Herald columnist Andrew Hornery revealed that the newspaper had been planning to tell the world about Wilsonâs relationship before she was able to herself.
In an opinion piece, Hornery wrote: âIn a perfect world, âoutingâ same-sex celebrity relationships should be a redundant concept in 2022. Love is love, right?
âAs Rebel Wilson knows, we do not live in a perfect world.
âSo, it was an abundance of caution and respect that this media outlet emailed Rebel Wilsonâs representatives on Thursday morning, giving her two days to comment on her new relationship with another woman, LA leisure wear designer Ramona Agruma, before publishing a single word.â
Hornery described giving the actor advance warning about the piece as a âbig mistakeâ, and said that by coming out on her own terms, Wilson had âgazumped the storyâ.
âHer choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming,â he added.
Safety and outing
Andrew:
Perhaps things are different for LGBT people in Australia? Though I doubt it reading the many stories of the trans bashing going on in your last elections.
â This is understood to be Wilsonâs first same-sex relationship, at age 42 and in an era when same-sex marriage is legal in many parts of the world and â thanks to decades of battling for equality â sexual orientation is no longer something to be hidden, even in Hollywood.â
But even giving that statement the benefit of truckloads of doubt, it certainly doesnât apply to the US; where she lives and works much of the time. Indeed, right now people running for office are calling for the execution of LGBT people and kids and their families are under direct assault by many states.
Perhaps you feel less of a threat personally - and I envy you if you do. But itâs the apotheosis of arrogance to put your little âscoopâ above the safety of others with no pressing public policy concern.
Ironically what youâve achieved is outing yourself. Sad, really.
Good luck with that,
Kathy
She also happens to work in an industry that still favors heterosexuality, at least as far as casting goes.
so the writer scandal/gossiphound says âif you donât tell, I willâ?! wtf?!
to what fucking end? gossipy clickbait ainât worth the galley-inches. unless you true motive was to hurt Ms. Wilson.
either way, dude, you are an asshole.
forfuxsake.
Ah yes, those assholes.
They always use U-Hauls, donât they? They probably had the guns in a separate, but nearby, vehicle.
To me it parses as worse than that.
Itâs âWeâre going to tell anyway, so give us a comment/interview about it.â
Followed by whining that she didnât give them a comment or an interview and trashed their story by releasing the info herself in a different setting.
Itâs attempted coercion, followed by petulant complaints about the reaction to be coerced not being what they wanted.
I agree. Theyâre pissed that she didnât grant them an exclusive interview to be part of their forced outing.
I agree with this take 100%:
Yeah, the editor had to swoop in with a âthatâs not what he meant (thatâs totally what he meant)â apologia, which convinces absolutely nobody.
(And for the We Hunted The Mammothâs lexicographical edification, âto gazumpâ isnât a âswindleâ, itâs more âbeing beaten to a non-fungible goal, with the implication that it was achieved with trickery or cheatingâ. Itâs if thereâs only one thing, but someone else grabs it before you have a fair chance. So if someone snipes you in an online auction, youâve been gazumped. If the house you were planning to make an offer on was sold to a friend of the realtor the day before, youâve been gazumped. If someone who clearly lied on LinkedIn gets the job you want, youâve been gazumped. If someone breaks the news about them themselves before you have a chance to print your exclusive reveal, youâve been gazumped.
It implies the use of an unfair trick or of sneakiness. If thereâs force involved, itâs not a gazump, itâs just theft.
Itâs also used jokingly, when the opportunities were entirely fair (âhe gazumped the last slice of cake, so I only got two slices myselfâ). But thereâs still the implication of unfairness at the heart.)
ETA mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
When I started hearing from friends and associates of Rebel that she was in a new relationship, as a gossip columnist I could see that was potentially a story, as her previous boyfriends had been.
Christ, what an asshole
Itâs almost as if the job of âgossip columnistâ is an inherently shitty thing that no one should ever do
ETA: Oops. âeverâ
You might want to edit out the ânâ, making it âeverâ.
