It’s this same spirit that permeated the Sydney Morning Herald‘s recent festival of cluelessness, but this time, it wasn’t colour blindness, but its LGBTIQ analogue: queer blindfolding. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the problem of colour-blindness the people who insist they “don’t see race”, a narrative captured in the platitude, “there’s only one race, the human race”. And Hornery’s email, regardless of what he intended, threatened to out her. Rebel was simply in a “new relationship” Ramona Agruma was her “new partner”, they were simply trying to break the news of this “celebrity romance”.īoth men seemed desperate to ignore the elephant in the room - Rebel Wilson, an actress who most people know as straight, was in a same-sex relationship. As both Hornery and Shields pushed out their articles over the weekend, at first furiously agreeing with each other before conceding that some harm may have been done, there was a common through-line: Both went out of their way to use non-gendered language.
