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        <title><![CDATA[Roxane Gay names Tyler Perry as one of her nemeses]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fans of novelist Roxane Gay&#8217;s Twitter feed have most likely heard her discuss her &#8220;nemesis,&#8221; occasionally in the plural. On Wednesday, Gay named Tyler Perry as one of them.</p><p>&#8220;One of my nemeses is a billionaire now,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/rgay/status/1301036027524440064" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gay, 45, tweeted</a> early Wednesday morning. By the afternoon, she decided to name names, replying to her own tweet with &#8220;[It&#8217;s] Tyler Perry guys! This wasn’t a mystery! He is a &#8216;billionaire&#8217; now.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;A pioneer in black ownership of IP and a studio. Bravo,&#8221; she added. &#8220;A pioneer in glorifying the degradation and demonization of black women, homophobia, and the lowest common denominator.&#8221;</p><p>The revelation may be somewhat confusing for Gay&#8217;s followers. Through <a href="https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&amp;q=nemesis%20(from%3Argay)&amp;src=typed_query" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the many references</a> to her &#8220;nemesis/es&#8221; on her Twitter feed, she frequently refers to one or more of them as female, though she also distinguishes &#8220;primary&#8221; nemesis, presumably indicating the status of a secondary or even tertiary one.</p><p>In June 2019, <strong>Gay expounded on the concept in a Medium post</strong>, writing on the Greek origins of the word and noting that she had 10 people on her list, naming Rachel Maddow as one and CrossFit as another.</p><p>&#8220;They are nemeses because a loved one has a crush on them and goes on and on about it just to get under my skin,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;or because they have a career trajectory I envy or they are vigorously mediocre or they have wronged someone I care about or they have wronged me.&#8221;</p><p>Perry was indeed <strong>bumped up to billionaire status</strong> by Forbes this week, who noted the 50-year-old has &#8220;a clear path to future membership in The Forbes 400.&#8221;</p><p>Reps didn&#8217;t comment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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