Quite white, isn’t it?
Is mayonnaise the food of undesire? Is it a testosterone-free zone?
Washington Post reporter Bomani Armah’s comment that Obama should put more mayonnaise on his sandwiches struck me as racist or sexist or somehow icky. Okay, it was tongue in cheek, but still…
Since then I heard a report from a man who, due to a medical condition, had been utterly depleted of testosterone. Without testosterone you are without desire. Of any kind. For any thing. The man claimed that during his testosterone-free stretch he did not care about anything. He did not care what he ate. Wonder bread covered with mayonnaise would have been fine, he said.
By proclaimining Obama should “show ’em his white side”, perhaps Bomani Armah is asking the candidate to tone down his masculinity. His virility. Somehow this doesn’t sit right with me. Just sayin. We all know the stereotypes in question.
What do virile men put on their sandwiches? Metal shavings? Unrefined petrol?
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