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Why do womens' sports have substantially higher percentages of gay athletes?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:17 pm
Not trying to flame or be a homophobe. I think the women's US soccer team has 4 or 5 prominent lesbian members. I can't think of many men's teams anywhere that have one gay member, much less 4 or 5.
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Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:18 pm to Slippy
You really can't figure this out on your own?
Oh, carry on.
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Slippy
Oh, carry on.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:18 pm to Slippy
Really?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:19 pm to Slippy
It's more acceptable for a woman in sports to be gay than it is a man in sports.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:19 pm to LNCHBOX
If they'd stick to home, love, and sandwich makin, they'd be alright.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:19 pm to Slippy
Because you take it in the butt
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:19 pm to Slippy
Gay men perform like women, gay women perform like men?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:21 pm to Ingeniero
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Gay men perform like women, gay women perform like men?
Hence US Womens Soccer Team is GOAT....and the men's team blows.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:21 pm to Slippy
Name one sport where it's beneficial to have a girly man competing. I'll wait.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:21 pm to Slippy
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Why do womens' sports have substantially higher percentages of gay athletes?
Probably the same reason there's a higher percentage of male than female homosexuals in theater and fashion design.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:21 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
Because Everyone likes lesbians
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:22 pm to Slippy
Women jocks are butch - I don't know what else to tell you.
Straight girls are more likely to settle down, start a family and have priorities other than sports. Ain't nobody got time for that, plus practice, plus travel, plus games.
Straight girls are more likely to settle down, start a family and have priorities other than sports. Ain't nobody got time for that, plus practice, plus travel, plus games.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:25 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
The Javelin throw, Latrelle Lamar, Lamar Latrelle
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:27 pm to Slippy
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Why do womens' sports have substantially higher percentages of gay athletes?
What is the percentage of women athletes versus men...I would think that after you worked out that number, the ratios would be similar
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:28 pm to BigVoodoo
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The Javelin throw, Latrelle Lamar, Lamar Latrelle
Bet you didn't know he was a member of the Cobra Kai dojo.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:30 pm to BigVoodoo
More women who play with balls have balls. Scientific fact.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:53 pm to Slippy
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Not trying to flame
Probably unintentional, but that's pretty funny right there.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 1:01 pm to Slippy
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Why do womens' sports have substantially higher percentages of OPENLY gay athletes?
FIFY, and there's less of a stigma on homosexual women than men.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 1:06 pm to GrammarKnotsi
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What is the percentage of women athletes versus men...I would think that after you worked out that number, the ratios would be similar
Actually, it would probably be even more unbalanced. There are more male athletes total and more female gay athletes total, so the ratio of lesbian athletes to total female athletes would likely be much higher than the ratio of male gay athletes to total male athletes.
As for why, I doubt anyone can know for sure. I'd speculate that sports are generally considered a masculine pursuit (at least at higher levels, like college and beyond), so any female athlete has to be willing at least to some degree not to conform to stereotypical gender roles. It follows logically that lesbians would be more likely than other women not to conform to those roles, so they would be disproportionately overrepresented among female athletes. For males, the effect might be opposite. Gay men might be less likely than straight men to conform to typical gender roles and be involved in traditionally masculine or macho activities like sports, so they might be disproportionately underrepresented among male athletes. The combination of overrepresentation of lesbians among female athletes and underrepresentation of gays among male athletes would produce a higher ratio of lesbians than gay men in sports.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 1:16 pm to Slippy
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