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19 Dec 2010
Former president Jimmy Carter recently remarked that he thought that America would soon be ready for a gay president, and The New York Times has a piece wondering if he's right. However, he's definitely wrong, and The New York Times only needed to look at their own style pages to know it - where they ran a whole piece about the dilemma the American male faces when carrying his iPad: how to carry it without looking like a gay!
American culture has some weird hang-ups about masculinity (that I'm sure some cultural commentator can trace back to the Wild West/frontier spirit or something) and from a European perspective, their hang-up about men carrying bags is particularly odd. It's constantly referenced in movies and tv shows - indeed, I think there was a whole episode of Friends built around the apparently hilarious idea that Joey got a "man-bag", or a "murse".
What the hell is the problem with a man having a bag? If America isn't "ready" for men with bags, it's hard to imagine America being ready for a president with a boyfriend.
(Of course the other one is Speedos. America thinks men in Speedos is weird/gay/hilarious.)
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