Talk:Ronan Farrow: Difference between revisions

 

==RfC Ronan’s coming out ==

{{Quote|In a 2013 ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'' article, Christopher Glazek [[outed]] Farrow as gay—while noting his sexuality is missing from the narrative of two then-recent lengthy profile articles about him, attributing the omission mainly to [[homophobia]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppmdzk/does-it-matter-that-ronan-farrow-is-gay|title=Does Ronan Farrow's Sexuality Matter?|last=Glazek|first=Christopher|date=October 30, 2013|website=[[Vice (magazine)|]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 21, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.insider.com/ronan-farrow-bio-photos-mia-farrow-woody-allen-history-accomplishments-2019-10|title=Meet Ronan Farrow, the 31-year-old son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen who graduated college at 15 and helped expose Harvey Weinstein|last=Collman|first=Ashley|date=|website=[[Insider]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-22}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/30-people-come-out-2018-so-far/|title=30 people who have come out in 2018 so far|last=Crittenton|first=Anya|date=October 11, 2018|website=[[Gay Star News]]|language=en-gb|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8304803/ronan-farrow-point-courage-award-lgbtq-community|title=Ronan Farrow Accepts Point Courage Award, Calls Being Member of LGBTQ Community a 'Source of Strength' In Career|last=Daw|first=Stephen|date=April 11, 2018|website=[[Billboard (magazine)|]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/01/17/op-ed-curious-case-ronan-farrow|title=Op-ed: The Curious Case of Ronan Farrow|last=Broverman|first=Neal|date=January 17, 2014|website=[[Advocate (magazine)|]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> Glazek noted that neither publication, ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', nor ''[[The New York Times]]'', seemed to care about his privacy, although ''The Times'' did mention "he is guarded about his private life," likely due to years of his family living through scandals, after mentioning his long-term socializing with [[podcast]] host and former presidential speech writer [[Jon Lovett]], <s>creating a double standard of purposely ignoring romantic lives of [[LGBTQ]] subjects</s> [“It’s only by accepting a homophobic logic that we can perform the mental acrobatics required to decide sexuality should be off the table.” (added)]<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.earnthenecklace.com/fact-check-is-ronan-farrow-gay/|title=FACT CHECK: Is Ronan Farrow Gay?|last=John|first=Caroline|last2=|first2=|date=January 11, 2018|website=Earn The Necklace|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/media/2015/08/05/defense-outing|title=In Defense of 'Outing'|last=Reynolds|first=Daniel|last2=Anderson-Minshall|first2=Diane|date=August 5, 2015|website=[[Advocate (magazine)|]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> Farrow has been a subject of longtime gay rumors.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.queerty.com/newly-ronan-farrow-changing-world-taking-one-abuser-time-20180516|title=Ronan Farrow is changing the world, taking down one abuser at a time|last=Reddish|first=David|date=May 16, 2018|website=[[Queerty]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>Other examples of media discussing Farrow’s gay rumors include:

::::::[[WP:NOTADVICE]] states: "'''A Wikipedia article should not be presented on the assumption that the reader is well-versed in the topic's field.'''" If the casual Wikipedia reader has to be {{tq|well-versed in outing}} to understand the proposed content, then said content violates the policy referenced. {{tq|Sad that has to be explained}} indeed. [[User:KyleJoan|<span style="font-family:Consolas; color:#CD8C95">'''K'''yle'''J'''oan</span>]]^{[[User talk:KyleJoan|<span style="font-family:Consolas; color:#8B6969">talk</span>]]} 06:10, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

:::::::Sadly you demonstrated that it needed to be explained to you. I’m confident that readers will understand the material as presented. But I’m also confident you’ll find some wikilawyerish way to argue about the blindingly obvious anyway. [[User:Gleeanon409|Gleeanon409]] ([[User talk:Gleeanon409|talk]]) 06:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)