Ryan Tate’s Anti-French Tirade
Editorials - Tweet this! July 11th, 2008
Gossip columnist Ryan Tate of Gawker.com fame fancies himself a comedic writer. In his gossip roundup dated Friday July 11th, he wrote a few word about Angelina Jolie’s pregnancy and her French doctors.
“Angelina Jolie wants to give birth, already, and leave the hospital like a tough American patriot. But her lazy, arrogant French doctors will make her wait in agony for three more days so they can celebrate cutting off rich people’s heads like communists and probably also so they can fornicate with their unbathed mistresses, get drunk and fantasize about terrorism. See what happens under socialized medicine? Celebrity divas are grossly inconvenienced! Awesome, right?”
This piece proves once again that when it comes to the French, anything goe. Once again, we have proof the Long Tail of Anti-French attitudes will last for a long time to come.
Sources : Gawker.com
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Note: In statistics, the long tail is a feature of the new distribution of online markets and human behaviour. Prominently featured in articles about Web 2.0, the concept might just as well apply to continued Anti-French attitudes.
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July 17th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 am
Laissez le pauvre petit morveux s’exprimer. Il represente assez bien le systeme scolaire americain.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:22 am
In France people stay longer in a hospital but in the US they unfortunately kick you out, that’s how they care about their patients.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
This is obviously a satire, the purpose being precisely to ridicule francophobia. I see nothing wrong in this.
Respirez les mecs ; c’est une bonne chose que de lutter contre la francophobie mais si ça dégènère en une posture rigide, braquée, et sans discernement, ça le fait moins !
Ciao
August 19th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Ryan just couldn’t resist this one : France Scandalized as Library Surrenders to Google
August 19th, 2009 at 9:12 am
This cowardly nut job that is Ryan Tate has a bad case of francophobia.
I suggest he gets some help.
http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/francophobia.html
August 19th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Ryan Tate Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Hello everyone! This is the email I just sent Miquelon. Love your country!
Miquelon, You know I just spent three weeks in France last year (at no small expense!) after three weeks of French lessons so I was surprised to see your post. It seems like you are perhaps not a regular Gawker reader, so let me say: We often parody or mock things (eg stereotypes) by exaggerating the “logic” of those things. And here I do exactly that with anti-French sentiment. Do you honestly think I could believe all that? And if I did, would I express in a “gossip roundup?”
I fail to see any satire in your latest anti-French piece, Ryan.
If you love our country you have a funny way of showing it and so do the people who have commented on your latest article. I certainly don’t see any satire in their comments either.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:59 am
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