John Roderick (aka Bean Dad) has apologized and is taking a break from public life to reflect on the hurt he caused.http://www.johnroderick.com/an-apology
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It's not for me to decide whether the apology is sufficient, bc I wasn't among the people hurt by Roderick's story. As a listener to one of his podcasts I was familiar with his persona, and his past use of "sarcastic" slurs, so it didn't hit the same for me as it did for others.
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I did want to pull gently on one thread, though, which is that he refers to himself as a straight white man twice in the apology. John Roderick is bisexual.
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I mean, far be it from me to tell someone else how they should identify, maybe he's had a straight awakening, but he's very open about his physical admiration for men, and he's been publicly out as bisexual in previous interviews and such...
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It's is one of the things I liked about him; a very masculine bi guy. So, him calling himself "straight" in the apology is interesting. It is, perhaps, shorthand- he's got a child, he's currently with a women, so he's culturally straight for the purposes of this apology.
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This is probably projecting too much, but I'm imagining him writing a draft of the apology where he was bisexual and realizing it sounded whiny, like he was making excuses, and cutting his bisexuality out for expediency. (Or maybe he just identifies as straight now, obviously.)
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