Actually they make it sound as if he had a fling with each of them and then they had a nasty break-up. That's the only way this sentence structure could make sense, lol.
I still find it pretty weird, actually. I only know this phenomenon from the US. I always notice this when one of "my" US-American celebs gives interviews in Australia, suddenly I notice how uncomfortable most US-interviews make me. They have a way of asking very obnoxious questions, they seem rude and bratty to me. A German newspaper would never write something like "openly gay" for example. The only way I ever find out that a celebrity in Germany is gay (or simply married to anyone!!) is either when they show up together at a thing, it's apparently common knowledge and someone tells me or when I start up Google. The thing is, if you wrote "openly gay figure skater" in a newspaper here it read as if you wrote "the black rapper 50 Cent" - your sense for political correctness starts ringing* and you feel kind of weird reading it. Because... why would they mention it? Then again, homosexuality was strictly forbidden here in the 70s. Maybe we're going to make it into a time that we don't have to read this phrase anymore? (I'm not saying that there are no homophobes in Germany or that our journalists are nicer, it's just that reading someone's gay in the news barely gets a rise out of anyone anymore so they dropped it. At least that's my theory.)
I still find it pretty weird, actually. I only know this phenomenon from the US. I always notice this when one of "my" US-American celebs gives interviews in Australia, suddenly I notice how uncomfortable most US-interviews make me. They have a way of asking very obnoxious questions, they seem rude and bratty to me. A German newspaper would never write something like "openly gay" for example. The only way I ever find out that a celebrity in Germany is gay (or simply married to anyone!!) is either when they show up together at a thing, it's apparently common knowledge and someone tells me or when I start up Google. The thing is, if you wrote "openly gay figure skater" in a newspaper here it read as if you wrote "the black rapper 50 Cent" - your sense for political correctness starts ringing* and you feel kind of weird reading it. Because... why would they mention it?
Then again, homosexuality was strictly forbidden here in the 70s. Maybe we're going to make it into a time that we don't have to read this phrase anymore?
(I'm not saying that there are no homophobes in Germany or that our journalists are nicer, it's just that reading someone's gay in the news barely gets a rise out of anyone anymore so they dropped it. At least that's my theory.)
/tl;dr I find it weird too and really offensive.
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