![]() ![]() When I was little, Mister Rogers was the man of the house. In a 1975 interview for the New York Times, Rogers noted drolly: "I'm not John Wayne, so consequently, for some people I'm not the model for the man in the house." that's a surrogate for saying he's weak, that's not right, because he's incredibly strong." He adds: "He wasn't a very masculine person, he wasn't a very feminine person he was androgynous." But as his longtime associate Eliot Daley put it: "Fred is one of the strongest people I have ever met in my life. Rogers himself was often labeled "a sissy," or gay, in a derogatory sense. As Maxwell King wrote in The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, he was not perceived at the time to be traditionally masculine: Like many people my age, Mister Rogers had a large influence on me in terms of how to act as a man. ![]()
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