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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Replying to @e_urq
I don't recall him mentioning this. I even googled it to see if I missed it (as I know him from podcasts, haven't read interviews) and I didn't find any mentions. Was it all in newspaper interviews? Just curious, I'm a listener to Omnibus, I don't recall him saying this there
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It's difficult to Google at the moment because of all the Bean Dad results gunking up the search results, and because it seems like he's taken down his personal website.
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He's talked freely about his attraction to some of the male actors in Friendly Fire movies, and this screenshot is one currently unreachable thing I believe I read before.pic.twitter.com/UqB4vFAbHq
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