The Temecula Valley High School water polo players cheered in speedos for the baseball team. Some conservatives went nuts.
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The Temecula Valley High School water polo players cheered in speedos for the baseball team. Some conservatives went nuts.
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Graduated mid 2000 in SoCal and the boys waterpolo team had a longstanding “Speedo Run” tradition every year for the first day of practice for the girls soccer team. One year the women’s athletic director tried to shut it down in advance by threatening suspensions. The run wound up with more participants from other sports teams, all of whom went out and purchased speedos and masks. It was quite the mild scandal but comparing it to OF and Chippendales is ridiculous pearl-clutching.
Firstly READ the article.
MOST ASSURED- The very red area of Temecula (and I’m not just talking about amazing red wine of the Temecula Valley) is defffff not the place for this headline of outrage to be taking root.
Though if the article is being pushed by OutSports, they TOO must see the sheer irony. (In reading it, NOPE, the irony seems lost, and the publication is stuck defending themselves against accusations of posting pix of young men in their uniforms. So the article is largely them saying “hey we aren’t ped0s.” SAD, to say the least)
One of the greatest race-to-the-bottom categories that could be held at high schools would be “are the swim dudes more or less conservative than the baseball dudes?”
If anything, the WP dudes were using their ability to be in speedos as a way to make others uncomfortable, playing off a homophobic mentality. “OMG HOW UNSETTLING! THIS COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE IGNORED! HEHEHE LOOK AT MY DICK!”
I would love for this to be an ally story.
….it is not.
It’s dudes interested in making others uncomfortable as a means to an end.
*As a sports enthusiast, this is not a unique tactic. And in theory, as a fan of the game, using available (fair play) tactics makes sense. It’s not cheating.*
I was glad for male teammates to do this kind of thing.
…but I can no longer pretend that it was about having a shared ideology. That wasn’t a way to support women or gay players. It was shock value. Or the team-wide leg shaving party. That wasn’t because they defended anyone’s lifestyle; it was about swimming faster.
And, gtfo with “a young woman in a bathing suit wouldn’t deal with the same hate.” ARE WE KIDDING HERE?
All this being said, getting people’s hypocrisy to rise to the surface is AWESOME.
It takes balls to pull that off.
They elected a rapist
Temecula Valley mention was not on my bingo card for today lol
lmfao every dude in swim sports I knew was a psycho. They’d wear their speedos outside of their school uniforms on game days, one kid got in trouble for doing exactly this coming to class. They’d all ceremonially shave and bleach their hair. Idk. It all tracks lol