The best argument against blending sports with the illogic of politics is that it leads to things like: The Wall Street Journal ran a photo of Supreme Court nominee playing softball, so it must be trying to out her as a lesbian.
Elena Kagan Plays Softball, So She Must Be A Lesbian
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↵What, you weren’t aware that softball was a haven for lesbianism? You obviously haven’t been reading the news.
↵↵“It clearly is an allusion to her being gay. It’s just too easy a punch line,” said Cathy Renna, a former spokesperson for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation who is now a consultant. “The question from a journalistic perspective is whether it’s a descriptive representation of who she might be as a judge. Have you ever seen a picture of Clarence Thomas bowling?”
↵↵Putting aside that mental image, the controversy has now prompted softball to distance itself from the image of being a game full of lesbians, and women athletes to openly disagree with those who would equate a photo of playing softball to a suggestion of lesbianism.
↵↵“We’ve come so far,” said Jessica Mendoza, a two-time Olympian and president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, “and to have even one person think that showing a photo would correlate with someone’s orientation, I want to yell out and say, ‘Where have you been? Look around.’”
↵↵In D.C., obviously.
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