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Old one got locked before I could post, so:
I just… I really don’t even know where to start with this article!
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The fact he compares himself to a grotesque looking imbecile who goes round snapping the necks of animals and people by accident?!
That he’s an utter uneducated illiterate who is too thick to understand Shakespeare even when seeing it on stage?!
That he lost his virginity in a field and merrily talks about “mounting her quickly” and getting his arse spanked?!
He’s bonkers, he’s utterly bonkers! How can he have thought this book was going to do anything but make him the laughing stock of the world????
I have a lot of thoughts, but mostly nausea that I'm trying hard to control.
This I will comment on though. You know what he sounds like to me? Like the Indian cricket player Hardik Pandya going on a talk show with a Bollywood director/producer famous for being gay-or-not-gay, flamboyant, indulging in the casting couch, boosting nepotism, and causing lots of trouble on his stupid show. So anyway, Pandya, who was unmarried at the time, I think, went on the show and told the nation the immortal words he'd said to his mother when he lost his virginity - "Main aaj kar ke aaya" ("I did it today").
There was a lot of outrage, obviously, because we don't talk about this stuff like this, at least not on national TV, the cricketers are supposed to exhibit better behaviour adhering to a code of conduct, and it was just crass. Then Pandya compounded it by saying that he has that West Indian style (probably used the N word? not sure about that). Went into graphic detail on that. in really bad taste. Was pretty unapologetic, apart from the official line. He then proceeded to date a veryyyy fair model (he darkened his skin, IIRC) so more memes, got her pregnant then quickly proposed and married (again something that raises brows). But was pretty unnecessarily flaunting all of it.
The whole thing was: deliberately said something outrageous, got away with barely any consequences, his teammates had to suffer (restrictions on endorsements etc which are needed because a lot of the guys come from very poor families/help others), got wealthier, achieved cult hero status especially amongst the young people he should not have been able to influence. And added to the ever-long list of innocent-seeming slangs that men, especially coworkers, can and do easily use to harass women. Ask me how I know
(speak of the devil - he's captaining today so the commentators are talking about him right now)
This shite sells books and TV interviews, but did we really need to know it?
Would love to know if we can sue Sparry for invading his own privacy? Because there's no public interest angle here.
'He mounted her then she slapped his ass and sent him on his way' lol
I'm trying to figure out the geometry of that. Never mind.
She was probably thinking that was one minute that she'd never get back. (No not being generous, but accounting for adjusting clothing and fixing hair etc).
