Homophobic Sports Page Readers
This picture is all over the Internet right now. See anything wrong with it? No, I didn't think so. But here's a response from the Courier-Journal, the paper that originally published the picture of two college players embracing, in which they defend their decision to run the picture in the wake of negative responses from readers. Why is a bigger deal made about athletes who are/could be gay than in other professions? Why are lesbian athletes never called out like gays are? I don't understand the straight male mind, despite having many things in common with it, so I don't understand why some would be uncomfortable simply being around gay men.
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The readership's freak-out is also a statement about the typical American's aversion to displays of physical contact, as well as a distaste for perceived man-on-man contact. It's too bad our Puritanical roots go so deep - the guys were just excited at a win and it's too bad people see it so differently.
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