http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2008/12/08/professional-soccers-got-a-new-rent-boy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=professional-soccers-got-a-new-rent-boy Jock Talk Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 12:25:56 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2008/12/08/professional-soccers-got-a-new-rent-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-3594 RomanFingers Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:27:27 +0000 http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/?p=3044#comment-3594 Dear Matt Hennie: Why do you trivialize this issue of worldwide gay shame in professional sports by ending your article with the limp wristed "Oh, the travails of pro jocks"? Did your attention span run overtime? Was there a pie cooling on the windowsill & it started to rain? You miss the entire friggin point of "death by example" that's foisted upon young LGBT folks who may have true athletic talent but settle for less, most likely never developing their best traits, allowing their inner dreams to die away, because of the rampant & accepted homophobia of worldwide pro sports. Are you so prejudiced against high-income earners that any sort of prejudice holding them back is just, la-dee-da, too bad? This goes way beyond financially compensable sacrifices. Even though, once again, the wider issue is the shame-based example that this screams out to athletically talented (or even interested) LGBT children on the playing fields or in the stadium bleachers. Do you consider yourself so much more morally righteous, so detached because of income differences, so unconcerned with the private political rights of your fellow LGBT citizenry as to brush off with flippancy the evisceration of public displays of homosexuality that are enforced as an additional cost upon involutarily closeted LGBT professional athletes? I indeed have protested too loudly here, but the two points I wish to make are important: 1) LGBT children have every right to have heroes to emulate as all other kids; and 2) LGBT professional jocks, despite their high incomes & rare opportunities to play their sports at the highest levels, are victims of this homophobia too! Dear Matt Hennie: Why do you trivialize this issue of worldwide gay shame in professional sports by ending your article with the limp wristed “Oh, the travails of pro jocks”? Did your attention span run overtime? Was there a pie cooling on the windowsill & it started to rain? You miss the entire friggin point of “death by example” that’s foisted upon young LGBT folks who may have true athletic talent but settle for less, most likely never developing their best traits, allowing their inner dreams to die away, because of the rampant & accepted homophobia of worldwide pro sports. Are you so prejudiced against high-income earners that any sort of prejudice holding them back is just, la-dee-da, too bad? This goes way beyond financially compensable sacrifices. Even though, once again, the wider issue is the shame-based example that this screams out to athletically talented (or even interested) LGBT children on the playing fields or in the stadium bleachers. Do you consider yourself so much more morally righteous, so detached because of income differences, so unconcerned with the private political rights of your fellow LGBT citizenry as to brush off with flippancy the evisceration of public displays of homosexuality that are enforced as an additional cost upon involutarily closeted LGBT professional athletes? I indeed have protested too loudly here, but the two points I wish to make are important: 1) LGBT children have every right to have heroes to emulate as all other kids; and 2) LGBT professional jocks, despite their high incomes & rare opportunities to play their sports at the highest levels, are victims of this homophobia too!

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