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True enough - not only is Rosie's gaydar potentially way off, it is not her place to issue the type of speculation she did. King and Winfrey have repeatedly denied that theirs is a gay relationship; they have stated that it's just a very close friendship. Therefore, O'Donnell had no right to make the statement she did.
I try my best to be direct and to the point, but my own perspective has been influenced more by my medical history. After two life-threatening infections in six months, I do not have the time to waste examining every subtle nuance of the relationships with which I'm familiar. Neither do I have time to waste on what is commonly called "small talk."
posted by
kidnykid
on September 26, 2006 at 11:40 AM
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gossip, women's friendships, etc.
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in my comment on your previous blog. You were talking about Rosie's speculation that Oprah and Gayle were probably gay. Rosie, I feel, was starting unsubstantiated gossip and rumor about something that's a) none of her business, and b) potentially hurtful. I'm not a fan of gossip, girl-talk or endless mall-crawls. This stuff makes me very tired.
At times I've had jobs where most of my co-workers were men, so my communications style is direct and to the point. Which can be a disadvantage in a workplace with mostly women. One has to be more subtle. I don't know many men who want a blow-by-blow conversation with every nuance and every he-said, she-said detail of a relationship problem, but it's been my experience that women tend to rely on one another for therapeutic empathy, sometimes for days and weeks of circular, soap-opera rhetoric.
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Pat_B
on September 26, 2006 at 7:34 AM
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