I doubt she was gay. But, I get your gist, FRiend.
Posted on 07/08/2012 12:27:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
London is gearing up for the Olympics, and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe is gearing up for her life out of the closet.
The 27-year-old soccer midfielder, who is currently on the Seattle Sounders Women of the W- League and a member of the United States women's national soccer team, didn't wait to be photographed out with another woman to tell her story. She simply outed herself in a magazine interview by stating "and for the record, I am gay."
The bleach haired Megan will be off to London to represent the United States at the Olympics this year, an achievement in itself, but prior to her departure she wanted to leave her mark on women's soccer by coming out and publically discussing her sexuality with Out magazine.
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Nelson does an hilarious routine 'Introducing the All-American College Football Team. Available on UTube for those interested.
Isn’t she that rapacious-looking soccer player, who is staring hungrily at her opponent (prey) in that, (nothing less than evil), sports-drink commercial on tv?
Excellent post. I’m not at all sure why its necessary to announce her sexual proclivities to the world. But I should care. I, myself, am a male lesbian ... geez, I just did same as this her. Dammit!
She ain’t even, barely pretty! Gives me the shivers!
She ain’t even, barely pretty! Gives me the shivers!
Indeed. Who gives a flying you know what.
Gee.... I thought everyone in the Olympics was gay.
I couldn’t care less about her sexual orientation. It isn’t my business. The problem is by making this a federal issue and turning this into a drama she now made it my business.
My bad. It’s Abby Wambach!
Wow - big surprise - a lesbian athlete - and who cares?....
I am a hetrosexual, there I said it, I know, I know, some of you will say “oh my gosh, he is a hetrosexual”, but I felt I had to come out and tell the world, you know it’s a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and by golly, I’m going to express myself, so, I like women, lots of women, I love women, please don’t judge me, it’s who I am, I like everything about a woman’s body, I like their hair, I like more than one woman, I can’t hide it any longer, i’ve been in the closet about my views, but, I just can’t hide the shame any longer, so, after I share my hetrosexuality with various websites, magazines, and netwoks, I will be going on a global tour to proclaim my hetrosexuality, I thank all of you for your support, being a hetrosexual is a cross I must bare, I will bare it with other women, but I will do my best, and, I will do it with pride, thank you all so very, very much!
The response should be, “So?” She’s only looking for attention; don’t give it to her.
I take it you don't have any daughters who play competitive sports:).
What little I know about women's sports is based on watching my daugher and her friends grow up playing soccer and basketball. They're still too young (now entering high school) to be good indicators, but through the middle school/early high school years, I don't see any gay vector at work in women's athletics. They are pretty normal girls, apart from moderately superior athletic skills. (This is a reasonably competitive travel soccer team; good athletes, but several rungs below elite status.) Nicest group of girls you would ever want to meet as well, but that's another story. As far as gayness is concerned, I don't see any early indicators -- though again, they're still young. For a start, I assume a normal distribution -- so with 18 girls on a roster, the probability is that every third or fourth team will have a girl who eventually turns out to prefer the ladies.
That's a rather far cry from assuming that most female athletes in team sports are gay.
So ... if women athletes at elite levels are disproportionately gay, a selection process must start to operate somewhere along the line. The mechanism is not hard to imagine. Assuming that hormonal differences are a key factor in homosexuality, masculinized girls would tend to develop an edge in body mass, strength, speed, aggressiveness, competitiveness, etc., all of which would translate into athletic advantage. But when and where does this become significant?
I have no idea what percentage of elite women athletes are thought to be gay. This is the kind of thing where a few examples probably get blown all out of proportion, but for the sake of argument, let's say that at the national/Olympic team or professional level, the percentage is -- what?: 10%; 15%; 25%; pick your number -- as compared to 2-3% in the general population.
So again, how do you get from a fairly random distribution at the front end to a skewed distribution at elite levels? It is of course true that small edges in performance can have big impacts. There are plenty of white sprinters in this country in high schook, and a few in college, but by the time you reach the U.S. national or Olympic team level, they're all black. The same is true in every other country around the world which has acquired a significant black population; if the African diaspora ever reaches China, the Chinese sprinters will be black as well. The same kind of thing may operate with regard to female athletes and homosexuality (or to take another sensitive example, Ashkenazi Jews and elite intellectual achievement); the higher in the competitive hierarchy you climb, the more the selection is skewed.
That said, I certainly wouldn't make any careless assumptions about female athletes being gay. Most aren't, and until you get to really elite levels, the percentage probably remains close to the baseline.
The article is about professional sports. You can therefore safely assume that my statement was about professional sports.
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