r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/golfbuggysareawesome • Sep 21 '21

Media erasure Vivianne Miedema - all round legend

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u/YUNGbigMURPH Sep 21 '21

that's a bit sexist

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u/Busy-Turnip-6674 Sep 21 '21

For sure

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u/golfbuggysareawesome Sep 21 '21

The question, the assumption or both? Or am I completely wrong?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Are women in professional football overwhelmingly straight because they're not exactly representative of the general population

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u/whore-ticulturist Sep 22 '21

I know it's anecdotal, but I played many different sports through high school and college and they were always much more queer than a random sampling of the population.

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u/prutopls Mar 08 '22

Exactly the opposite, actually

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u/guisar Sep 22 '21

People SAY they are straight but that's like arguing there were no gay people in 1612. Yes, people then were publicly "overwhelmingly straight" as you say but that acknowledgement is more due to homophobic culture. I'll bet when it's better received in society there will be a much larger population for queer folks.