SOWETAN HOMOPHOBIC SPREE
During Pride week the Sowetan newspaper chose to publish a series of offensive articles – including outlining the so called “tell-signs” of being gay.
The first piece, titled Are you gay? Here are the tell-signs… , written by Amanda Ngudle, was published on October 5 and proceeds to outline a number of stereotypical and sometimes absurd list of traits of gay men.
“According to fully-fledged gay guys, the signs are the opposite of what the lesbian types do,” writes Ngudle. In the article she quotes a gay student by the name of Kefiloe Tobagale:
“They like to sit with one bum on the couch and like to keep their hands together. Their jackets are festive and their necks are always elegantly projected.”
Ngudle’s other “expert” sources, including a hairdresser, also tell her that, “…most homosexual men are expressive, tend to touch themselves and others. The openly gay ones are said to have a deliberate feminine swing in their step and a few still carry the limp wrist trademark.”
She adds that, “Being groomed to death and having a thing for small accessories are also tell-tale signs, but the concern about lips and hair care are rated as top-fivers by those who know better.
“Homosexual men are romantic and have always been associated with hair care and they like to lead by example,” throws in Tobagale.
On the same day the newspaper carried another homophobia-tinged article, also written by Ngudle, titled, How I conquered the gay curse, in which former soap actor, Trevor Yamba, explains “how he reformed and got back to heterosexual life.”
“People often ask whether it is possible to put a homosexual lifestyle behind you. Because there are few stories of former gay people who have walked the thin ice back to a heterosexual life, some wonder if being gay is not a reformable trend,” writes Ngudle.
In the article, Yamba, who starred in the hit show Generations, says that his study of psychology has also helped him “become” hetrosexual.”
Sowetan or Journo?. I am totally appalled by this article, in this day and age, how can an editor allow a journo to go to print with such articles.
Isn’t Sowetan meant to be the paper for the people? which people I ask. the murders and haters?
because someone doesn’t do things the way YOU want them to, doesn’t make them sick, as Ngudle tried to prove by using Yamba’s example.
It just means you have varied tastes!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally feel the journo, editor and newspaper should make public apologies!!!!!!
This is madness!!!!
Beliefs & Opinions. People have individual beliefs & opinions about homosexuality. One side of the society believes homosexuality is a phase, a sin or a choice that can be changed. I can tell you now that is the same side that believes all gays have similar tendencies in behaviour, specifically body language or what Amanda Ngudle calls “tell-signs”. They believe a prayer can help gays & gays can be reformed into heterosexuality.
Well, it goes to show how much “work” still needs to be done in the society we live in. It’s the “GAY WORLS WAR”
Seriously?. I think it’s all laughable!!!! It just proves that publications like the Sowetan fall into the same category as The Sun and Heat. Not to be taken seriously. These are publications that are meant to excite the “oppressed masses” but rarely take into account the intellectual maturity of their readers. I think it’s an insult to the intelligence of the person on the street.
And I really don’t care if my opinion is snobby and elitist.
It is shocking that a publication with as much weight and as wide a readership as the Sowetan could run articles which would seem more at home next to the “Eternal Jew.”
Some slapping to sense in the form class action suits needs to take place here.
Oh now really dahling!. What a load of rot! And i suppose the lournalist was paid for that rubbish?
Paper doesn’t refuse ink… I think this Ngudle has seriously lost the plot…along with her mind..
Sowetan articles. Amanda Ngudle will never make it as an international jouralist. What a load of crap.. fire her now!
trashy babes trashy. the article didnt create the response she was expecting. cant u just find sumthing more constructive to write about coz this is just a big no no…..