Lately the NFL and the Boy Scouts have separately been under fire for what's become overt homophobia. For me (I can't be the only one) this has triggered a realization that this discrimination is hysterically hypocritical. It'd be even more funny if it didn't mean upstanding talented kids are shut out from their dreams. But until the NFL and the BSA get over their B.S, here's some picture-perfect proof of how high-school-stupid the people who run these places and run their mouths against gays are.
Given the culture's Dory-like memory, it seems to have begun with Chris Culliver putting up his own "No Shirts, No Straights, No Service" sign.
Then, because Manti Te'o fell for his imaginary girlfriend, the NFL caught a case of gay panic.
Last month, a flaming debate began when the Boy Scouts tossed around the idea of jumping on board with the U.S. military and letting gay scouts be openly gay.
Then they changed their mind.
The most mind-blowing aspect of all the macho-posturing on behalf of these two groups is how much they both fit the very stereotype they seem terrified of taking on. Would the quarterback admitting he goes home to a person with a penis really be that earth-shattering to the world of football, given, well what football is? I'm more of an expert on Broadway, but from what I understand...
They wear pretty tight pants, kind of like ballet.
They spend an awful lot of time chasing after a ball.
Which usually ends with them all on top of each other.
Not to mention the fact that, as Bill Maher pointed out at the tail-end of the Teo controversy, grown male football fans spend an awful lot of energy worshiping their favorite tackling 20-year-old.
You know, like Beliebers.
Or Directioners.
Of course, after Kasa's quote about suffering that sexual line of questioning, the NFL distanced themselves from it, with spokesman Greg Aiello saying it's "against league policy." But given the obvious homophobic (and, as such, sexist) attitudes rampant in the NFL, it's certainly not against league practice. When you protest against sugar with a Twinkie in your mouth, you're gonna choke on that Twinkie.
Which brings us to the Boy Scouts, who, as former scout Frank Bua brilliantly made clear in an article on OUT, also have a habit of attempting to spit out their cake and eat it, too. To wit:
There are badges for things like bird watching...
Gardening...
Pottery...
Theater..
And there's all that overnight close-quarter camping...
So I have a message for both the National Football League and the Boy Scouts of America: if the two of you are going to keep up the conspicuous homosexual propaganda, you might as well merge into one big fat gay....pile: The N.F.L.B.S.A. Think of it this way--you could play in the game, design your uniforms, AND perform yourselves at the Super Bowl halftime show. It'd certainly be more interesting than another pop tart in a short skirt. I mean, the neckerchiefs alone...
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