I’m profoundly uninterested in motor sport, and also very wary of investing too much symbolic significance into silly little moments, but I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable about Lewis Hamilton’s champagne celebrations following the Chinese Grand Prix. It’s long been pretty obvious what the uncorking and spraying of the fizz represents but we don’t need to delve too deeply into the semiotics of porn tropes to decide that there’s a big difference between a general splurging in the rough direction of the watching fans (who apparently rather like the experience) and firing it into a specific woman’s head (and she clearly didn’t).
Talking of wankers and cars, apparently the very notion that A WOMAN, not to mention A LESBIAN WOMAN might take the place of Jeremy Clarkson in Top Gear has prompted some of his halfwit catamites into wishing said woman might burn to death. Look, I’m not arguing that a deep and intimate fascination for all things automotive correlates with being a socially inept thug but, yes, well, I am really.
To be fair, though, just to prove that such levels of abject idiocy are not confined to people with penises: Jon Ronson is getting grief for a line about rape in his new book that might be misconstrued — despite the fact he removed it from the published edition, lest it be misconstrued. You know what? I need a drink.
3 comments:
He's from Stevenage, nuff said.
Generally speaking, the problem with racing drivers is that none of them have had childhoods to speak of because their pushy rich fathers have been shoving them about the place in go-karts since they were seven. More specifically, Lewis Hamilton is a bit of a tit.
I love that Jon Ronson's book is about mob mentality. If it was a Jeremy Clarkson book you'd assume it was done deliberately for the publicity.
I understand your discomfort with Lewis Hamilton's champagne celebrations, but I think it's important to consider the context. These celebrations are a tradition in Formula 1, and while they may seem excessive to some, they're generally meant to be celebratory and fun. As long as he's not intentionally targeting anyone, I don't think there's a need to overanalyze the symbolism.
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