'His tiny Asian wife'....yesterday's Deadspin

What are you, immun...
Nah, it's too easy.

 

I think "wife" is soooo cliche.
I would have used "Walton's Lotus Blossom." Or perhaps Concubine.

Ragu,
I thought it was the blacks who had a thing for Asian chicks? I though the jewish guys were all in pursuit of "Shickzas (sp?)"?

I think Irish guys just want a chick who can poor beer and not bitch about being tied to a raging drunk.


I think I've filled my quota of streotype classifications for the this month.

 

I find it telling nobody used the words "offensive" or "offended" in this thread -- or any version of the words -- before Mizzou did. He was the first.

Based on Mizzou's latest posts on the thread, in which he's reaching into his nuclear arsenal to blast at anyone who has used the word "offensive" since he first introduced it to this topic, I'd say Ragu is a pretty insightful guy.

 

And are we talking about tiny as compared to the general population, or tiny compared to Bill, or tiny compared to the traditionally short women of Asia? It's an important distinction!

 

The cutline writers at Deadspin probably never heard this, so I'll pass this along: Photos tell stories in details that don't need words. That's why we run them.

"Wife" is something that photo can't convey.
"Tiny" and "Asian" are pretty obvious if you look at the photo.

"Tiny Asian wife" is unnecessary. "Wife" is appropriate and informative.

Class dismissed.

Run the photo if you like. Write us a cutline that tells us what we need to know. Give us credit for having eyes and working brains. Be professional.

It's not that difficult.

 

I actually don't think Mizzou's outrage is directed at me, but regardless:

I'll ask it this way--in what other form of media could/would you make the reference? "Hello fans, here with Billy Packer, and whoa, there's Bill Walton with his tiny Asian wife!" "I'm here on the sidelines with Bill Walton and his tiny Asian wife...." "SAN JOSE (AP)--The crowd was packed with UCLA fans, including Bill Walton and his tiny Asian wife..."

This is a Freedom of the Blog liberty--the right to make comments you could not make elsewhere in 'legitimate' media.

For the record, I wasn't offended...I just thought it was a cheap and cheesy reference. Funny when Krazee-Eyez Killa did it on Curb Your Enthusiasm...not funny for Deadspin.

 

It may or may not be important to remember at this point that Deadspin is a comedy website. Sports may be the occasion for the comedy, but it's a comedy site. All the Gawker properties, whatever the nominal topic - sports, media, cars, politics - are meant first and foremost to be funny.

And while one can certainly disagree with the idea that the phrase under discussion is in any way funny, I would hope that we use different criteria to judge news writing and comedy writing.

 

Now I get it.

Ha!

 

Well, you can only hide under that umbrella if you are truly funny. Otherwise, you're trying to have the best of both worlds in the ensuing ambiguity of the information superhighway and its blogosphere.

 

Hey, we should take the positive, life-affirming view of this.

Perhaps Deadspin was just implying that Bill Walton is a repressed pedophile.