Comments on: Gay sports called “apartheid”

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:12:41 +0000

Name me current gay sports players in Great Britian. Can’t? I thought so. The reason why these gay sports teams exist is because of the straight supremacist mindset that exists in sports that you either have to be straight or pretent to be straight to be accepted.

These are the three signs a point-of-view is apart of the straight supremacist ideology:

CONTROL: straight supremacists want to control what gay people can and can’t do.

INSIGNIFICANT/ SUPERSIGNICANT: straight supremacists will treat gay people as if they are insignificant or supersignificant. Example of insignificant treatment: it doesn’t matter if no openly gay person was ever on American Idol. Example of supersignificant treatment: gay people are destroying society.

DIFFERENT RULES: straight supremacists will apply different rules to gay people than straight.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:46:21 +0000

It’s not so much offensive as it is laughably naive and profoundly ignorant. The comments label him as a moron, more than a bigot.

By: citpolo

citpolo — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:55:13 +0000

Maybe the policy has changed, but don’t most softball teams in the US have a cap on the number of “non-gay” players on the team? I realize that’s one exception to the general rule that most sports out there are inclusive of everyone, but I’ve always thought the “straight cap” was kind of insulting.

Re: “Have to agree” I think both paths are important. My personal example goes as this – I’m an assistant coach for varsity swimming and water polo at MIT (and if you don’t know MIT swimming, we have the current national champion in 1M diving, and are sending a number of guys and girls to nationals in other events as well), and I am out to all the coaches and lifeguards (many of whom I consider friends outside of the pool as well), and even a few of the swimmers. So, I feel that I am doing my part to “expose myself as a normal guy to a team full of straight people”. However, I still enjoy playing rugby with the Boston Ironsides, and have even recently been working with LANES (swim team) to start a water polo program with them, in hopes of sending a team to IGLA in DC this year.

The gay-oriented teams provide a great, HEALTHY, social outlet for those of us who don’t enjoy the bar scene, or limit ourselves to trolling around on websites.

So, like I said, both paths have their pros and cons, but I don’t think that one choice is exclusively better than the other.

By: Theodaddy

Theodaddy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:29:11 +0000

this is guy is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party

if you all remember Ian Paisley-this is his political party

they are very fundamentalist Protestant and very anti-Catholic

By: Have to agree

Have to agree — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:34:30 +0000

While obviously apartheid would be an inapproporiate and wrong description, I don’t understand all these gay-oriented teams. I play sports and I play on teams with my friends, which happen to have all straight guys. Going out of your way to create a gay-oriented team only creates further segregation. You get a lot further in life by integrating yourself and exposing yourself as a normal guy to a team full of straight people.