The Minnesota Vikings recently announced that they will
become the first National Football League team to host a summit on LGBTQ
inclusion in sports, according to the Twin Cities’ KSTP-TV. The conference will
be held at the team’s sparkling new headquarters in Eagan on June 21st.
A reception will be held after the meeting, to raise money for local and
national LGBTQ organizations. The team says it wants to utilize this gay gala
to create opportunities for people in the LGBTQ Community. Kevin Warren, the
Vikings chief operating officer, remarked: “We hope that this really
jump-starts the conversation.”
Is that
a “conversation” that needs to be “jump-started?” You can’t pick up a newspaper
without reading about transgender rights, can’t turn on a television without
your eyeballs being awash in gayness, can’t watch a current Hollywood movie
without vicariously engaging in lesbianism. And urban papers, plays,
“interpretive dance performances” (and other forms of “art”) are utterly
suffused with homosexual, bisexual and various non-binary and questioning
characters and behavior. Gay “Pride!” parades are ubiquitous. Drag queens are
reading to our kids…in elementary school. Moreover, “Dick and Jane” have been
cashiered in favor of “Heather Has Two Mommies.” On the boob-tube, “Father
Knows Best” has been replaced by “Will & Grace,” a show that is certainly inclusive
of willys, but one totally devoid of grace. If “Leave it to Beaver” were made
today, it would have an entirely different plot-line, though it might still air in prime-time.
I
Googled, “gay characters on television” and these are a few of the actual
results: “53 Queer TV Shows To Stream On Netflix,” “57 Netflix Shows With
Awesome Gay Characters,” and “Best Gay, Homosexual Couples on Teen Television Shows, TV Series.”
(Emphasis mine). Parallel searches revealed no
listings for “Awesome Heterosexual Characters,” or even “Somewhat Okay Straight
Characters.”
So, the
Vikings (of Minnesota) will now be associated with a different kind of
pillaging and plundering: “Oooh, Hagar, you savage,
come and get me!” “Ragnar, your Gjallarhorn is to die for!” Perhaps they’ll
dress up their mostly purple uniforms with a touch of orange or a splash of
pink. If the team is truly committed to touting the LGBTQ Community it could
place a rainbow flag patch on the shoulders—or crotches—of all its players.
Political correctness is a tragic
farce, albeit it a malignantly militant one. It won’t be long until NFL teams
start renaming—or “rebranding”-- themselves. Even the Heartland of the U.S.
isn’t immune to this illness, as the Minnesota Vikings have just illustrated.
How long until the NFL includes teams named, the “Chicago Bares,” “Dallas Urban
Cowboys” and Green Bay “FudgePackers?”
“Stroll, Vikings, let’s not be
tame. Stroll, Vikings, you could be dames. Go, Vikings, we all wanna score.
You’ll hear us all yell for more! Oooh!”
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