No Fags Or Fat Chicks Please

by digby

Here’s macho Michael Medved discussing that icky Tim Hardaway and giving all the he-men over at Townhall an argument that doesn’t make them feel all funny down there:

Tim Hardaway (and most of his former NBA teammates) wouldn’t welcome openly gay players into the locker room any more than they’d welcome profoundly unattractive, morbidly obese women. I specify unattractive females because if a young lady is attractive (or, even better, downright “hot”) most guys, very much including the notorious love machines of the National Basketball Association, would probably welcome her joining their showers. The ill-favored, grossly overweight female is the right counterpart to a gay male because, like the homosexual, she causes discomfort due to the fact that attraction can only operate in one direction. She might well feel drawn to the straight guys with whom she’s grouped, while they feel downright repulsed at the very idea of sex with her.

I think he missed the boat here. A much better analogy would be to imagine what would happen if a shrunken little creep like Michael Medved entered a woman’s gym naked, blowing kisses through his pathetic 70’s porn star mustache. I would bet a million dollars that all the women, including the fat ones, would sooner fuck a corpse than that deplorable racist, sexist, homophobic jerk. (Townhall writers of both sexes, on the other hand, would undoubtedly be intrigued.)

Medved’s worked himself into a lather thinking about showering with all those big, black “love machines” but it’s not an issue for professional athletes, gay or straight, who spend their entire lives hanging around naked men. And most know very well that there are gays in the NBA like everywhere else:

“You don’t think we all played with gay guys. Of course we have,” Barkley said. “It has never been an issue.

And considering that there have always been gays in the locker room without incident it’s obvious that what gets Medved and his homophobic buddies all worked up is the fear that they might do something inappropriate once they find out a fellow player is gay. They aren’t afraid that the gay man might desire them like some loser fat girl who should take herself to cliff and jump off of it she’s so revolting. It’s that they are afraid of their own desire rising up to the surface once they find out one of those hot love machines likes dick.

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