Connecting the dots between sexy media guides and homophobia?

Via Deadspin...

Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times takes a look at the media guides/websites of the women's basketball programs like Texas A&M, and Florida State, and feels these "glamor shots" are saying, essentially, lesbians not wanted.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/womenshoopsblog/2010251932_womens_hoops_media_guides_and.html




Thoughts? Seems like a bit of a leap to me. Is the unsaid thing here that lesbians don't like to wear dresses? Don't like to dress pretty? But I'm not a woman, so I don't know how much that clouds my perspective.

 

Maybe it's saying only hot lesbians wanted?

 

OH HAI 2005-ERA SLANG

It's improper to be prejudiced against lesibans just because they're all flannel and work boot-wearing dykes.

What a simple-minded, cloying, overwrought and -- on top of all that -- stereotype-fueling pantload. Total dud.

 

I don't know if it is saying "Lesbians not wanted." Possibly.

I don't know how I feel about these. Is it different from photos of guys dressed in suits?

I have seen women in dresses far more often than guys in suits in posters and media guides.

 

I've got a bigger problem with having the head coach in the middle of the picture.

 

I'm probably not gonna watch a women's basketball game, but I might look at the hot chicks on the cover of the media guide.

 

Not a good column at all.

Evans is a "media guide geek," but she thinks programs with shots of women's basketball players in street clothes are a new thing? I remember seeing them in the early '90s.

Worse yet, she is spreading the stereotype that all lesbians are butch and wouldn't ever want to dress nicely. It is hard to be informative and ignorant at the same time. Evans pulled off the latter a lot more than the former.

I'm not saying homophobia isn't an issue in women's sports. It is. I'm not even saying I think these types of picture are appropriate. I'm not sure how I feel about it. But to link the pictures to homophobia is just ridiculous. Heck, some lesbians actuall might LIKE looking at attractive women. Go figure.

 

Looks like a couple of the players are wearing pants suits. I question their heterosexuality.

 

What's the Duke football team trying to say with this picture?

 

He looks like he's ready to turn them out.

 

Bingo.