Daily Gut: Kagan's Stance

So some gay groups are upset over a photo the Wall Street Journal ran of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan:

It was also a picture we ran on Monday. It’s of her playing softball. The beef? That the shot is meant to provoke questions about her sexuality.

Gay and lesbian advocates, like Cathy Renna, believe it “clearly is an allusion to her being gay,” even though the paper never mentioned her orientation.

And that’s my point: The only time Kagan gets outed, is by gays. The bottom line: most of America doesn’t care who Kagan likes to cuddle with. In fact, most of America doesn’t even care about the Supreme Court period. The fact is, this so-called “whispering campaign” over Kagan’s sexuality wasn’t started by an average Joe or even an angry right wing preacher. It was launched by busy-body bloggers, mostly on the left, who have too much time on their hands and too much identity politics in their heads. My favorite line, for example, comes from a major liberal blog. In it, the writer says that Kagan’s friends say she is not gay. But adds: “And yet, the rumor persists.”

Yeah – the rumor persists, because you keep writing “the rumor persists,” you stupid jackass.

Worse, when gay advocate Renna claims that the softball shot is innuendo-driven, she simply reinforces the stereotype that all lesbians are all softball players. In Politico, she questions the use of the photo by asking: “Have you ever seen a picture of Clarence Thomas bowling?”

No, but Thomas was brutally vilified for not fulfilling a stereotype – that of the liberal black ideologue.

Something tells me he would have been happy with the bowling photo. Or being called a lesbian.

And if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist homophobe who despises the collected works of Ani DiFranco.

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