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Waiting to impaleApparently that's what Terry McMillan has been doing  from the time she found out that her (now ex-)husband is gay, until this month, as her essay "100 Questions I Meant to Ask Him" is published in the book The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce. (I love that the cover features a piece of burnt toast!) The Publisher's Weekly review reads, "Another low is Terry McMillan's vulgar rant about an ex-husband, who admitted to homosexual exploits on national television." Were the exploits nationally televised or just his admission? Anyway, when McMillan first found out, she reportedly told her ex "you're going to make a great fag" because "most of you guys are just like dogs anyway," and now she's written this essay to clarify that she's a woman wronged, not a homophobe. Galleycat has read the essay and presents ... More evidence of McMillan's enlightened, non-homophobic attitudes:
Doesn't this best-selling author have a publicist or someone with the sense to tell her this was all a very, very bad idea? Still, I think they should make a film adaptation of the essay, starring Angela Bassett, of course. She can do scorned.
She can do bitter.
And she can also do better. She knows when to bite her tongue, Terry.
Submitted by on February 1, 2007 - 4:03pm. |
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Wow. She needs to get over it. And would she be any less angry if he'd cheated on her with another woman? I don't think so. By pointedly focusing on his homosexuality, and indeed making sweeping generalizations of all gays, just illustrates how somehow there is a perception that vilifying gays is acceptable. I'm here to tell you that it aint.
Ack! Ick. Like nails on a chalkboard.
The way I look at it, it feels less personal if the man you're with leaves you for a man (or because you're not one). It's better than if he left you for another woman, no? And both of these are better than if he left you for no one. THAT stings.
I hear you on the publicist or lack thereof. Yikes.
[...] One of our sassy sisters over at AfterEllen’s blog posted an item on the story today, and I thought I’d bring it over here so that the kids that McMillan is insulting can get in on the action. The essay itself is called “100 Questions I Meant to Ask Him”, and it’s aimed at her ex-husband (and Groove-Back-giver), who later came out as a gay man. Here’s a few of the choice questions that McMillan woud like to ask her ex, via the general public: [...]
Aw, poor Terry. Who can blame her though?? She thought she'd gotten her groove back but, in fact she's still waiting to exhale. Either way, Angela is the perfect woman to play her. I love those pics! :)
http://angiebnews.blogspot.com
Wait a sec... Is this a book by Carrie Fisher or her life or both or the film adaptation or somewhat similiar?! Nah, it happened before, dear Ms. McMillan, and certainly she was more successful to get over it!
"Suzanne Vale had a problem ... She'd had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. He forgot to tell her, and she forgot to notice." (The Best Awful)
This is coming from a woman who married a guy based on the fact that he is so much younger than she is. Then she wrote a book telling women that they need to find a younger man in order to "get their groove back", but yet she doesn't have a problem slinging stereotypes on gay men.