Article About Sports and Homosexuality

[Guest LaParkaMarka]

Sports and Homosexuality

 

So what do you guys think of what this guy is saying?

[Guest justcoz]

I think he just referred to all of us as homos!!!!

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I believe there may be some merit in the idea that sports is a way of releasing some sexual energies, but to suggest that such is strictly homosexual energy is absurd and sexist (it basically assumes women can't play sports, because if men were all sweaty with their hands on women it obviously wouldn't be "homosexual" energy).  The article further stretches its very small amount of sensibility to the point that by the time it gets to talking about wrestling as "the 'gayest' sport" its pure b.s. that sounds like a 14-year old trying to make up an intelligent-sounding reason for disliking something.

[Guest J*ingus]

You all know the saying about "the first one to notice it"...

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Was the domain name insecurity.org already taken?

 

My feelings exactly...

[Guest El Satanico]

Yeah wrestling can't be the "gayest" sport...it isn't a sport. But to call pointing out the obvious gayness in pro wrestling bullshit is rather short sighted and just makes it look like you don't want to admit it.

[Guest]

Sure.

 

'Rasslin is pretty queer.

 

There's no two ways around it.

 

(There's sellers on eBay that specialize in marketing wrestling tapes and magazines to the gay subculture. The first time I was searching for old wrestling mags and found an auction title ending in the word BUFF BAGWELL - GAY I was surprised. But I got used to it... )

 

But yeah, that site did seem sort of stupid and, that's right, insecure.

[Guest Ripper]

That is quite possibly the most homophobic thing that I have ever read, and the fact the he even makes the attempt to make it seem intellegent is embarassing.  He is coming off as a guy that sucked at sports and hated everyone with the slightest bit of athletic prowless, so he resorts to just saying that men in sports are gay.  OOOkay.  Everything has homosexual overtones if you start trying to look ridiculously deep.  But to say that athletes are really there because they are gay and that men enjoy the sports because of some latent homosexual feelings is ridiculous.  

 

I wonder if he thinks that if a guy hugs his friend at his wife funeral, it has nothing to do with comforting your friend...he is really hitting on him.  I would gladly love to take the guy to a rugby game and let him get a megaphone and tell everyone in the audience that they are only there because they are gay and all the players are gay because they come in contact with each other.  That would lead to the gayest beating to death in history I guess.  But of course, they wouldn't be beating him to death.  They just all want to get thier hands on him....because they are gay.

[Guest]

I think he's just pointing fingers, and using wrestling fans as a scapegoat to illustrate his point. News for grown ups? I don't understand why an artcile about homosexuality and sports even had to be written. Who cares? This guy is just going to open a can of worms. I think he just wants a bunch of flame-mail from a series of homophobic wrestling fans to illustrate that wrestling fans are all trash. Hello Phil Mushnick.

 

But, to state a point without being an asshole like the author of that column. You have to realize that wrestling goes all the way back to the days of the Roman Emperor, Nero. Gladiators would fight in the coliseum, and in fact, would rape eachother. I'm not saying that wrestling fans are "in the closet" or that "all wrestlers are gay" (personally I could care less).. but, historically speaking, wrestling IS a very gay sport. Whether or not that is true TODAY, is another story.

 

BTW, Here's an interesting interview with Barry Blaustein:

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/0800/wrestling.html

[Guest El Satanico]

Well i don't think he was being totally serious. I felt that most of the "gay" comments were done in a sarcastic mockery of the idiot jocks and manly mans that say shit like that. However i could be wrong and he may really be a stereotypical jock or an idiotic manly man.

[Guest]

Well i don't think he was being totally serious. I felt that most of the "gay" comments were done in a sarcastic mockery of the idiot jocks and manly mans that say shit like that. However i could be wrong and he may really be a stereotypical jock or an idiotic manly man.

True enough.. sometimes writers have trouble conveying sarcasm over the internet without having to blatantly point it out.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Anything is sports or entertainment seen objectively is silly.  You don't watch movies and then say "oh this is so stupid! Why is Tom Cruise pretending to be a spy?", or "Why is Stevie Y trying to put that disk-like hard rubber thingie in that net?"

 

It's called suspension of disbelief... Look into it.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

that article disgusted me. that guy was a fucking homophobe. that was stupid and dumb.

[Guest JHawk]

If the point was that homosexuality exists in sports, of course it does.  Hell, sports are part of life, and so is homosexuality.  But you know something?  I don't give a shit who the homosexuals are, what sports they're in, and for it to be broadcast over the air or written about in articles like this.  Sports are entertainment by nature, and that's why we watch them.  I've never gone to a baseball game, seen Omar Vizqul pat Jim Thome on the ass, and thought "Get the queers off the field."  Who cares?  Unless you start seeing blow jobs on the field or something, leave it the fuck alone!

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

The article wasn't as full of substance as it was full of someone desperately seeking to make a square peg fit into a round hole.

[Guest Ace309]

Um, guys...

 

 

 

 

Satire?

[Guest JHawk]

Um, guys...

 

 

 

 

Satire?

 

There was something about the tone that seemed more like "Phil Mushnick" than satire to me though.  It seemed like he was stretching, yes, but it didn't meant in humor.  That being said, I hope you're right because I'd hate to think somebody actually lets someone like this write for them in a serious tone.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

And he said, after pointing out the 'gayness' of pro wrestling and the faces being in the croch and stuff 'It's a wonder this sport hasn't been banned'. WTF is that! Oh, all the really gay stuff should be banned?

 

This guy sucks...

[Guest]

From the Blaustein article:

"One gladiator had a merchant fleet; he'd enter the Coliseum in a golden chariot; he was banging the Empress; he owned estates in Ostia."

 

It's Tripilus H, Gamus Maximus!

I wonder if Gladiator smart-marks got on him the same way....

[Guest]

"Homophobic, much...?"  <-- That was what echoed through my head as I read through this.  It's hard to tell if it's satire or not, but if it isn't, then that's pretty damn fucking offensive.

[Guest TheyCallMeMark]

It's pretty obvious to me that it was a joke.

 

And a damn funny one at that.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Checking out some other stuff on the site, it is, in fact, supposed to be a parody article.  It's still not very funny though.

[Guest]

It's Tripilus H, Gamus Maximus!

I wonder if Gladiator smart-marks got on him the same

*laughing his damn ass off*

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

Sports and Homosexuality

 

So what do you guys think of what this guy is saying?

I'll put it this way

 

While the WWE May or May Not have homosexuals on their roster, This idiot would know nothing about it.

 

It may be true, but his evidence is the same paranoia that says a handshake is a secret way to walk together holding hands

 

And I dont even want to know how his paranoia would take over at a Frat house

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Jesus, what a load of crap.