Comments on Trick Wire: Boudia, Finchum Both Want To Be The Top

I just want you all to know that I actually just r...

2008-09-07T19:02:00.000-07:00

I just want you all to know that I actually just recently met Thomas Finchum as he attended my church with a long time girl friend of his while on vacation and he has his head on straight and is focused on his career in diving. Yes, he does seem a little more feminine than most guys, but that does not mean that he is gay. I can't wait to see both he and David Boudia in the next Olympics and watch them win a medal for the US diving team!

It is more complex than that. People (outside of A...

2008-08-27T00:26:00.000-07:00

It is more complex than that. People (outside of Australia) don't talk about Matthew Mitcham because he looks and acts gay. He is a camp stereotype who makes no attempt to disguise the fact that he is gay. That makes him boring to the masses.

It is the unknown makes them speculate about Finchum and Boudia .. and worse than that, speculate about them as purely sexual objects.

They are not just divers, they are world-class divers; but the gay 'sports' sites that are doing the speculation almost ignore their diving abilities and just talk about them as sexual objects.

Thomas Finchum's trunks slip a little we have posts dedicated to his crack and what sort of masturbation fantasy provides.

These idiots complain that more gay athletes don't come out .. but don't they realise that they are providing one of the strongest incentives to stay securely in the closet?

As if that isn't bad enough, this sort of sexualized commentary gives the homophobes all the evidence they need to justify their belief that no gay man can be interested in sport for the sake of the sport itself and that there is always a sexual pretext.

It turns my stomach. No wonder so many gay sportsmen and women choose the closet.

I read maybe 15 to 20 different sites that questio...

2008-08-25T19:38:00.000-07:00

I read maybe 15 to 20 different sites that questioned Finchum and Boudia and I think none of them even mentioned Matthew Mitcham, the confirmed gay man. I thought it was strange to speculate about two other divers when if anyone wanted to write specifically about gay divers, they didn't just start with Mitcham. See, why skip the confirmed and proceed straight to the speculation? Especially now, looking backward and considering Mitcham is the gold medalist.

Another thing I noticed is that most people who mentioned the gay thing were writing only about the Americans' orientation and nothing about their talent, their achievement or medal prospects. It might be different if orientation were mentioned as the fifth or sixth thing about them, but when it was the only thing, I have to question the relevance of the comments. It would be like creating a blog post that said "Thomas Finchum. Is he white?" That kind of thing is just a spam post, which if you do a Google search you will see that a lot of sites did exactly that in order to gain traffic without having to actually think of some original commentary.

The speculation about David Boudia and particularl...

2008-08-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

The speculation about David Boudia and particularly Thomas Finchum being gay is not because we want an american star to be gay. It's because they seem to be gay, Finchum in particular. You act like there is some kind of gay quota system or something. Only one gay allowed at a time.