Oh, the Stupid!

Michael Medved demonstrates his mastery of every cliche known about gay men. (And his complete inability to forumlate a rational argument.)

According to the “enlightened” advocates of gay liberation, this disgust gets to the very essence of “homophobia” – an altogether unjustified fear and distaste for male-on-male physical intimacy. When Hardaway says “I hate gay people” what he suggests at the deepest level is that he feels revolted by the very notion of same-sex eroticism and that he’d prefer not to face the distraction of such thoughts in the locker room or on the court.

In this sense, the reluctance to team (in athletics or the military) with announced homosexuals isn’t bigotry, it’s common sense. The recent “Astronaut Love Triangle” provides a pointed reminder of the way that even disciplined military careerists can be diverted, even ruined, by attraction, eroticism and romance.

Those who insist that basketball teams or submarine crews must welcome gay recruits must, for the sake of consistency, argue for the same welcome to teammates of the opposite gender. That notion – that a male player could, for instance, join a WNBA team without serious problems – shows the way that political correctness now seems to deny the obvious, often overwhelming potency of human sexuality.

Those who suggest that a guy could shower with young female athletes without risk of arousal, or that a gay guy could shower with young male athletes with problems or discomfort, don’t merely defy common sense. They ignore human nature.

Dear Stoopid:

I don't quite know how to break this to you -- and to Tim Hardaway -- but if you ever showered after gym class in school in a locker room shower, you were showering with a gay boy. I went through years of high-school and college group showers (as well as nude all-boy swimming classes) and y'know what? The straight boys showed more woodies than the gay boys.

Maybe the problem is that no one expects professional athletes to behave like -- well, like professionals.