Theil was expert and tenacious in execution.
I don’t hear a lot of that gratuitous ‘outing’ going on these days. Maybe because it’s less of an issue. Regardless of frequency, that is still someones private life that is being exposed and forever changed in a negative way.Gawker is lucky Theil has chosen such civilized means of revenge as via courtrooms and the American legal systems. Other parties may have been far more direct, far more lethal in making their anger known.
I know someone who was ‘outed’ back in the early 90’s, when a lot of this was going on; and he was outed by other homosexualists, which I thought especially vicious.
It changed his life drastically. An argument can be made that it only drives people who might choose differently further into the culture and lifestyle; because they’ve been ‘pegged’.
It’s a very mean thing to do.
-JT