His latest project
Aaaaaaaaand again:
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/764224201205116929
There are some…lively responses to that tweet.
Punished Venonat @hamsandcastle 18 hours ago
@JDrutman @nytimes Elon Musk gave her gillsLauren @lkroner 23 hours ago
@nytimes Oh thank goodness. For a moment there I thought Ledecky was going to get credit for her accomplishments not relative to a man.David Roy @david_roy 16 hours ago
@nytimes This is garbage. She just put on one of the very best performances in Olympics history, and you are angling a rando tech guy.summer of harbaugh @stefanielaine 15 hours ago
@david_roy @nytimes “Hmmm, a woman is historically great……let’s do a piece on the man responsible for her greatness”KELLY @MsFopra 17 hours ago Franklin, TN
@nytimes FFS Could you be more sexist. She’s not a project. Or an innovation. She’s a woman, an amazing athlete with a lot of talent. She worked her ass off to accomplish what she has. She deserves to be celebrated for her accomplishments.Wendy Lady @NerdRage42 16 hours ago
@nytimes oh wow. Now we’re automatons. This is unacceptable…and was seen by more than one set of editing eyes before posting. Shameful.Truth April Teale @TruthTeale 19 hours ago
@nytimes You know what he can’t do? Win gold medals for swimming. Seriously, what the everlasting fuck were you THINKING with this article?Meg @garlicmeg 11 hours ago
@nytimes Unbefuckinglievable NY Times. Let the woman own her own accomplishment. She is not a machine that was engineered by a man!Lauralu @mslauralu 19 hours ago
@nytimes one more time story must find a way to credit a man for a woman’s greatness. It’s 2016! Just. Stop.Jessica Smith @Echo6979 16 hours ago
@nytimes Um, she’s an athlete, not a robot, and this is an incredibly gross headline. Stop giving men credit for a woman’s accomplishments.
And much more.
I think I’ve told this story here before. I remember when The Silence of the Lambs came out–a movie I loved–reading a review by a male reviewer who praised Anthony Hopkins’s performance, then went on to praise Jonathan Demme for his skilled direction of Jodie Foster.
25 years ago. I was actually shocked at the time.
Wow.
Funny, the old Gilligan’s Island theme song keeps running through my head – the millionaire…and his wife.
Tin-eared and ugly.
The guy may be worth a story, and it would be linked to his most prominent student. But the tone veers directly away from what might be worth knowing about him. Backed into coaching, first Olympiad at age 55, etc.
But.
Is there anything about what he does that is worth note? Coaching an athlete as spectacular as Ledecky is NOT evidence of any special ability on his part. Caruso’s voice teachers never got famous.
Sad too, that the listed author is Karen Crouse.