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Uma Thurman "didn’t feel comfortable operating the car" because "she had been led to believe by a teamster, she says, that the car... might not be working that well."

I've been trying to understand Maureen Dowd's NYT article about Uma Thurman, which appears to be about sexual abuse at the hands of Harvey Weinstein but halfway through becomes an article about a car crash that took place during the shooting of "Kill Bill."

This is a separate post on one specific thing that I left out of the linked post: Uma Thurman's last-minute disinclination to drive the car because "a teamster" led her to believe something was wrong.

What nuance did Dowd mean to slip into our head with that word "teamster"? Is there a connotation of violence, a hint of deliberately sabotaging. Here's the image I got:



Yeah, I know. That's gangsters, not teamsters. Even though a "gang" and a "team" might seem like the same thing, the word "teamster" referred, originally, to someone who works with a team of horses (or oxen), and it only later got extended to truck drivers. The seeming equivalence of these words might affect your mind, but mostly when you hear "teamster," you think of the Teamsters Union. Unions might make you think of violence. If the union guy warns you something's not right with that car, it carries some extra meaning, some warning — don't get in that car.

So why say "a teamster"? Did Dowd mean to prod that part of my mind that connects unions to violence?! Members of the Teamsters Union do many of the jobs on a film set, but the word isn't capitalized. And yet, I can't imagine why, in the present day, you'd call someone a "teamster" unless you meant he was a member of the Teamsters Union, but then you'd capitalize it, like you'd capitalize "Mason" if you meant a member of the fraternal organization as opposed to a craftsman who builds with bricks. Who would you call a "teamster," with no capital "t"? Surely, not a truck driver. And it would probably only confuse people to refer to someone working with a team of horses as a teamster.

I check the NYT archive to check my instincts about capitalization.

"Teamster" — capitalized — appeared in the NYT last September — "5 Things to Cook While Watching ‘30 Rock’ Before It Leaves Netflix":

Italian Sausage Sandwiches, paired with ‘Sandwich Day’ (Season 2, Episode 14)

We’ve all been there: Someone eats the very thing we’ve been looking forward to all day, and we can’t control our anger. It happens to Liz when a writer on the show eats her very special, once-a-year Teamster sandwich. Her response to the injustice was both perfect and terrifying: “I don’t know how, but you’re going to get me another sandwich. Or I’m going to cut your face up so bad you’ll have a chin!” It’s impossible to know if these Italian sausage sandwiches measure up to what the Teamsters bequeath on the crew of “TGS,” but they’re definitely a snack to guard closely."

So... stereotyping Italians (and maybe relying on the teamsters/gangsters conflation) — is that okay?! Or is this the kind of clueless elitism that caused Hillary Clinton to say "basket of deplorables" and lose the election?

Next, I see this horribly/gloriously fateful article from July 2016: "Donald Trump Invades Scranton, Hoping to Wrest Pennsylvania From Democrats."

One of those in the audience, George Boyce, 70, said he was glad to have several more months to make up his mind. A retired Teamster, he said the book warehouse where he had worked left for Indiana because it could pay nonunion wages. But he was not convinced that the Democratic ticket would be better for union workers. “I don’t believe that,” he said.

And I'll give you just one more, and I'll just say that all the other recent appearances of "Teamster" in the NYT had the capital T. In November 2016, the NYT ran a short story by the famous author Michael Chabon, "The Sandmeyer Reaction":

In the mid-1930s a horse trainer from Camden, N.J., had come to Mazer with a business proposition. The horse trainer’s mother had a sister who was married to a Teamster who was married to a sister of Mazer’s...

So Mazer was the horse trainer's aunt? Man, I hope that sentence isn't an intelligence test. I had to draw a diagram. Later, that same story...

Mazer had assumed then that the horse trainer was only home for a visit, but on the other hand the Teamster father had recently run off with a cocktail waitress at the Hotel Sylvania, leaving the mother bedridden.

I haven't read this whole story, nor have I delved into the oeuvre of famous author Michael Chabon, but I'm guessing Chabon in the NYT because language like "Teamster father," "cocktail waitress," and "bedridden" mother resonates with the sort of people the NYT envisions as its readers.

So now, tell me, why did Maureen Dowd slip us that line about "a teamster" who "led" Uma Thurman "to believe that the car... might not be working that well"?

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