28 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Women who like to watch the World Cup are often accused of only liking it because they want to see men running around in tight shorts. Well if you ask me, I think this is why a lot of “straight” men watch it. The homoerotic nature of major organized sports like soccer and American football is blindingly obvious. You cannot be watching the World Cup right now and not see it splashed right across your television screen! Anyone who cannot at least acknowledge this is in major denial.
I think that a certain percentage of the macho repressed Neanderthal types who are obsessed with these sporting events (you know, the kind who like to beat up “queers”) actually get turned on by them. These sporting events feature lots of physical contact between men, form-fitting uniforms, hugs and pats on the ass o’plenty. [And let’s not forget terms like “tight end” and “end zone.”] Because all of this is done in an environment that celebrates male aggression, strength and even violence, men with repressed homosexual desires can get off on it without acknowledging or even understanding what they’re feeling. And then when the game is over they can continue to bash gays and women, which is classic, textbook behaviour for men like this. [Fraternities have the same vibe going on.]
Of course I am not implying that all professional athletes and sporting fans are closeted homosexuals. Big duh. But we aren’t allowed to even question the hetero macho “manliness” of playing or watching organized sports. And I’m sorry, but that’s just bullshit.
Tags: World Cup
Photo caption: At right, the dude married to posh spice. At left, some other dude.
Anglofille said @ 6:30 am | World Cup |
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Phwar! Er, I mean look at those two English heroes, great players, truly great, nice feet and stuff I suppose lovely erm yeah. So anyway, the one on the left is Ashley Cole, who has just won a libel action against a newspaper who insinuated he was involved in a gay orgy. How can someone so manly….I’m not gay honest and if anyone says I am I’ll……
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Sorry irony overload there!! I agree to an extent, the Ashley Cole thing only makes me slightly more suspicious. Why do ’straight’ men feel the need to sue someone for calling them ‘gay’. Is that really so offensive??? Who cares what anyone else thinks?? Of course the papers shouldn’t publish such nonsense but, at the end of the day, if you are in a happy heterosexual relationship who cares if everyone else thinks you are gay??
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I think if you’re a professional athlete, being called gay is the worst insult imaginable — even worse than being told you play like a “girl.” These jock types seem to be very insecure in their masculinity. I read an interview with a gay American football player, now retired, who said he did everything in his power to hide his secret because he feared for his personal safety on and off the field.
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That is truly sad. Perhaps instead of imposing ‘freedom’ on countries around the world, we should focus on establishing freedom for ALL individuals regardless of gender, race, faith or sexual orientation. Then we can claim to be beacons of freedom.
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I’ll admit my attraction. I really do like the sport, but one benefit of soccer over American football is that the men are wearing less.
Yeah baby, show me some leg.
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Sports Fan Says:
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:39 pmI like to play sports but I admit I don’t watch much. A true team player who loves to play the game and if it is a team sport (not like Golf or tennis) then everyone is rooting for their team mates to succeed so they can win. Hi-fives, slaps on the back are signs of approval, friendship, and excitement from the game. Men form a sort of comradery that women don’t seem to desire (or get). You see this in sports, combat, fishing (refer to Cookies Fortune), even stress situations at work. Why is it when women do some of these things nobody thinks their gay, or homo-erotic! This sounds like a feminist thing.
