The Current Events Thread

[Kamak]

She probably wouldn't be invited.

[Tammerath]

Jason Collins, a basketball center with the Washington Wizards, has become the first male athlete in a major American sport to go on record as being gay.

[Exeres]

I could have sworn an American football player came out a few months ago?

Now that I think about it, he may have been a college player.

[TheStranger]

Isnt pro sports still ridiculously homophobic?

[Tammerath]

I can't speak really, as I've never spoken to an active pro athlete, but judging from the tweets I've seen, it was generally well-received.

[Syobon]

Isnt pro sports still ridiculously homophobic?

What does that even mean? You mean the sports organisations? Well there's a fuck ton of those but I can't recall one with openly homophobic policies of the top off my head.

[TheStranger]

I mean as in the athletes are really homophobic and foster an unofficial homophobic attitude backstage. Thats what I read anyway

[Syobon]

Well that's quite a generalisation since there are thousands if not millions of athletes across the world.

[Ersatz]

Some time ago in Canada a professional footballer (I guess?) came out publicly because he was sick of people's attitude towards gays in sports, and I remember every analyst and whatnot commenting on his courage for the reasons TheStranger mentioned.

[SaintCrazy]

I think the reason you get a homophobic vibe from pro sports is because its such a stereotypical heterosexual male dominated culture, so you'd expect people to get called out for doing anything "unmanly".

But apparently his coming-out is going over well. This is good news, especially considering he was the first to do so.

[Kamak]

There's also the kind of ideas that the teammates will be uncomfortable or threatened by the possibility that a teammate might be scoping them out in the locker room and other stuff like that.

I don't tend to see a lot of out and out homophobia in sports, but it's kinda understated and "uncomfortable" in vibes you get from stuff. Not to mention sportscasters and coaches using some uncomfortable words to discuss weakness in players or emasculate them in some manner which feels like a cross between complacent sexism and homophobia (the stuff like "throws like a girl" "sissy" "Get the dick out of your booty and man up" etc.).

It's like no one wants to point it out as existing.

[Lambeth]

Not exactly current events but:


10 years ago today, Bush proclaimed that major combat operations in Iraq were over. He was wrong.

[AngelicSongx]

Hehe, the Mission Accomplished thing in the back made me laugh.

Today Hotmail is dead. They are so dramatic with the titles of these articles. They just switched to Outlook.com a new email thing.

[Lambeth]

It's more appropriate to say it got eaten.

[[Citation Needed]]

93-year-old man arrested under suspicion of being a guard at Auschwitz.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013 ... witz-guard

Because he definitely would have fled the country or something.