Politics: Just Terrible

Apparently, some college recruiters are subtly spooking parents of prospective women's basketball players by indicating that coaches at rival schools pursue "alternate lifestyles." Of all the things in the world to be worried about, terrorist bombs and airplanes hitting buildings, having your kid get an awful disease from the groundwater concentration of lead in your hometown, the neighbor kids playing with that fat moron's gun next door and everything else, is there really any time to be worrying about whether a lesbian basketball coach will jeopardize her program and its chances for success to "recruit" your old-enough-to-decide-for-herself daughter into the gay world? Give me a break.

The worst thing about this is that it represents the uncanny ability of one homophobe (or at least a recruiter willing to play a homophobe to enroll a six foot four high school senior) to identify the secret fears of another homophobe. If this were a tongue-in-cheek action movie, the recruiter would try his homophobic pitch with a mom who turns out to be lesbian and she would punch him while everyone else cheers.