[lbo-talk] Condi a lesbian?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 20 10:34:57 PDT 2003


Luke Weiger wrote:


>I don't see how anyone could think that the dialogue in this strip implies
>that Condi is or might be a lesbian.

In the Richard Blow (sic) story, it says:


>Let us instead give the Post more credit by assuming that the paper
>doesn't want to discuss its real reason for not running "The
>Boondocks": This week's strips could be interpreted as suggesting
>that Rice is gay. Particularly since there's already scuttlebutt to
>this effect in Washington, primarily, so far as I can tell, because
>Rice is single and comes across as a little frosty. The tip-off is
>the flack's curiously neutral phrasing, saying "personal
>relationship" as opposed to, say, "boyfriend."

So it's not in the strip, but in the reception of the strip among the knowing.

By the way, Liza talked to a guy who owns a bookstore in Harlem who told her that "everyone" in the black community says Condi's having an affair with W, while "no one" in the white community does. For what that's worth.

Doug



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