Connecting the dots between sexy media guides and homophobia?

Being friends with more than one D1 women's hoops coach, I am told the "L" question comes up in every home visit. EVERY home visit. Even the ones where the parents are the last to know little Susie is playing for the home team. Apparently assuring the folks "the gay" has never occured at your program while assuring Susie you don't care one whit what she does with her private life is key. So it very much can benefit a program to throw out the hetero card publically.

 

I had a friend in college who's sister was a highly recruited basketball player. She narrowed her choices to the two big in-state schools and eventually decided to go to the school she didn't like quite as well and play for the coach she didn't like quite as much because she wasn't comfortable being "the only straight girl on the team."

The fact that this school was able to land her and another good in-state recruit played a key role in that program overtaking the other for several years.

 

That's the thing. It is an issue in women's sport. The problem with this column is the writer tried to draw a connection to something that is not related based on an idiotic stereotype that lesbians don't like to dress nice.

 

I think this column at least started a healthy conversation on the subject (at least on this board), which might be its intended purpose.

 

The "L" vs. "H" question also comes up quite frequently in softball.

But discussing whether wearing makeup or a dress is proof of heterosexuality is a canard. Plenty of lipstick lesbians exist out there, and after all, someone has to be a "bottom."

 

That's some funny stuff there, Gland of Graphite.

 

Perhaps, but she could have done it better if she had chosen to really go after the topic rather than making the ridiculous connection to media guide pictures and perpetuating the foolish stereotype about lesbians.

 

I have long been fascinated by the apparent double standard regarding homosexuality in sports. We seem to presume and (to a degree) accept that lesbians are rampant in women's athletics, but we deny and ridicule the notion of gays in men's sports.

 

Who does?

 

As if that needs to be said

 

Keep the writers away from gymnastics media guides.

 

Frankly, I always thought the hyphenization of multi-syllabic married names screamed this.