Top NFL draft pick Michael Sam came out as gay, prompting a welcome from the league but also old-fashioned concerns by football players and fans about the possibility that the totally-not-homoerotic locker rooms of the totally-not-gay profession of football might become an uncomfortable place…a hostile work environment for straight men. One asked: how should I react if a gay dude looks at me? Here’s how.
Gays! And in such a Hetero Environment!
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Wow, Ted, that’s two really great ones in a row.
Even if it were not homoerotic, these sentiments are odd. I suppose they just felt like if they don’t know anyone was gay, they didn’t have to think about it as if there were no gays in the first place. Gays have always been there, seeing you naked. Get over it.
Ted,
You took this one and buried it deep in the end zone.
What? There’s nothing gay about that!
+1 entirely friendly and totally not-gay slap on the butt!
«Women don’t know what it’s like – being sexually objectified !» Christ, Mary and all the saints, Ted – I came close to spilling tea all over my keyboard when I read that one ! You almost got a bill in the mail ! More, more !…
Henri
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That objectification line… brilliant! I wonder if that’s really what homophobes are freaked out about. Twisted irony.