popcult

I’m sure many of you have heard about Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy’s speculations on Channel 9’s coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games about the sexual orientation of male ice skaters. I certainly don’t agree with perpetuating ridiculous stereotypes on mainstream media, but this did leave me wondering, if the classification of gayness is how likely Eddie and Mick are to see you dick, what’s in and what’s out of the  Eddie/Mick closet?

We know that ice skaters are in, but who else? Well anyone wearing bike pants. That’s just obvious. And in that case wrestlers are definitely in, since they also wear spandex. What about jockeys? Those jodhpurs are pretty tight. So are footy shorts (either code). And American football pants for that matter. Are footballers fags? Swimmers? What else? Tights? Skinny leg jeans? Who can forget of course the horror of that photo of Tony Abbott’s budgie smugglers or the years of spandex wearing by Madonna that culminated in the visual atrocities of the “Hung Up” filmclip! If we are to follow Eddie and Mick’s rationale to it’s logical conclusion, then they are all raging fags!

Photo: Adaptation of BC Bike Race 2009 Coast Spandex by Jane Victoria King (crop and resize). This version and the original available under a CC BY 2.0 Generic licence.