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Politico reports the gay community, specifically the National Stonewall Democrats and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), is furious with the Wall Street Journal. Why? Because they published a front page photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan playing…softball. Which is, who’da thunk…a gay slur of some sort.
Softball is gay? A woman playing softball is gay? Oh man!
Not to put too fine a point on this, but one of the rites of spring in Washington is softball. Most Senate and House offices, Cabinet departments, and so on have softball teams composed of the men and women of their staffs. On any given spring or early summer night in Washington, softball games stretch as far as the eye can see on the Mall. Having participated in this ritual for several years I can say it is as normal as — well — having a beer at a ballgame. It is very competitive, lots of fun, and for that time period the most important person in the office is not the boss but the person who is charged with booking a field and the best hitter.
Women play. All the time. And have for years. There is nothing the least abnormal in the sight, and the notion that a photo of Kagan doing this is somehow an anti-gay slur is somewhere just this side of nuts.
But an important conversation stopper if the real point is to stop a serious discussion of the beliefs she will bring to the Supreme Court.
It’s also an interesting look — yet again — into the psyche of those who believe in judging others by race or gender. Maybe GLAAD has something against lesbians? Which, by the way, the White House says the nominee is not. Who cares? What’s in her head? Now that’s important…and in this case what’s there is decidedly not good, beginning with that basic of free speech, which she wants to limit.
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Warrior | 5.12.10 @ 3:51PM
If Rahmbo can join congressman in the shower, I'm comfortable with a lawyer playing softball. However, if she has a Melissa Etheridge album anywhere in her apartment she needs to be outed faster than Clay Aiken.
Pete| 5.12.10 @ 3:54PM
Anyone can hold a bat. The revealing thing would be how she throws. If it is like Osama, she is all woman.
Oldefarte| 5.12.10 @ 3:56PM
In the picture, is that a BAT that she is holding, or.............a DAD*&DO;?????????????
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Perez D'egeneressth Hilton III| 5.12.10 @ 4:15PM
Just goes to show, gays and lesbians wear their victimhood like the latest fashion accessory, whether is a faux-hawk or a new pair of Birkenstocks, Victim Chic never goes out of style!
JanineC| 5.12.10 @ 6:01PM
There are some stupid loudmouthed radical leftist gays, but the vast majority are not like these idiots. Most live quiet, normal lives and do not want all this negative attention. These idiots do NOT represent the majority of homosexuals in this country.
tonypal| 5.12.10 @ 10:31PM
JanineC, unfortunately the gay/lesbian community has allowed the crazies to control the message. Until the average homosexual who no doubt simply wants to lead a private life is willing to speak up and denounce the kind of lunacy we got today from GLAAD, the rest of us will have to assume that all homosexuals agree with their unappointed spokesmen.
Unabridged| 5.12.10 @ 4:29PM
OK, all you bewildered disconnecters of dots - - Remember "A League of Their Own" starring Rosie O'Donnell?Rosie is fat and abrasively gay - and played softball in the movie. Captain of the team, if memory serves. Macho-Lez.
The lovely Elena is fat, once played softball, is by her own proclamation, never married and has no children - she must be gay. Or just coyote ugly , unable to snag a husband and well past child-bearing age. Or, just a "career woman", as they like to be called. Wonder why men never adopted the "I'm a career man" label? Because it sounds cheesy?
JanineC| 5.12.10 @ 6:03PM
Just because someone decides not to marry doesn't make them only gay or ugly. I AM attractive but did not marry because I did not meet anyone I wanted to marry. Not everyone is meant to have a family regardless of orientation.
Mimi| 5.12.10 @ 4:33PM
Heh FOLKS: A Saul Alinsky quote......Never never give up your VICTIMHOOD".....watch for it....a lib's weapon . They will use this all the time, to gain sympathy and try to make you look bad. Today, and this story is a perfect example!!!
JohnD| 5.12.10 @ 4:49PM
I heard Kagan has WNBA season tickets. . . Oops, now GLAAD is REALLY going to be upset.
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Unabridged| 5.13.10 @ 1:13PM
My apologies to the attractive, unwed JanineC. anonymous bloggger. I thought the subject was Elena Kagan, very public, stereotypical middle aged "maiden lady" who might appear to some to be - - but then I think that of Janet Napolitano, too. As President Obama himself sez "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still . . . .
My little riff on softball/Rosie O'Donnell sailed right past the sensitive Janine, which does not surprise me.
tonypal| 5.13.10 @ 5:45PM
Janine's problem is that she doesn't understand how the GLAADs of the world undermine gays and lesbians. It's fine to engage in radical politics if you have a significant portion of the populace on your side. Let's face it, the most radical movement in the last millenium was the American Revolution. We all know how that turned out.
Unabridged| 5.13.10 @ 10:06PM
All of this labeling and denying of the label - and assuming softball indicates . . .
Maybe we should just go back to "Tomboy" and "Sissy". Homosexuals hi-jacked a lovely word, "gay", the most incongruous of terms to describe themselves. I've seen a lot of bitchy hairdressers who don't seem gay to me. Truman Capote was pretty cranky. The Gay Parade in SF doesn't look gay - it just looks bizarre. City funds are set aside for that outrage, but you will never see a Memorial Day Parade.
Who do you suppose devised the insulting "old queen" to describe older homosexual men? Not a heterosexual, I'll bet. Heterosexuals have the homosexual community to thank for being labeled "straight". How is "straight" the opposite of gay? Straight is the opposite of twisted.
Wonder who thought up the complimentary term, "fag hag"? That was a used in the fifties to describe the obligatory woman invited to a homosexual party, presumably to make it a mixed group! What an unusual social life it must have been for the fag hag. No, she must have enjoyed the company, else why would she go? Who named her "fag hag"? My guess is the party guy, making up his guest list - "....and we'll need a few fag hags."
Who would have thought we would have reached a point of discussing the sexuality of a Supreme Court nominee who looks like she couldn't make it with either sex! Not that there is anything wrong with an unattracitve puffy faced maiden lady with what appears to be the beginning of male pattern baldness.
Her refusal to allow ROTC on a college campus - where presumably a young man or woman has reached an age not to be swayed by some evil recruiter, is what bothers me.
Dale | 5.19.10 @ 9:04PM
Next thing you know, not-so GLADD will be
saying that any reference to women who buy their plaid shirts in the mens departments to go with
their mullets while driving their pickup trucks
is also some kind of derogatory reference. Jeez!
You just can't make these people happy. Much
less..."gay"!
Dale | 5.19.10 @ 9:09PM
That should be GLAAD. But you already knew that.