We really don’t care about Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation. In fact, it’s a subject on which we’d prefer to remain blissfully ignorant. There mere thought of it puts shivers up our spines.
But ever since the Wall Street Journal ran an old photo of Kagan playing softball, her old friends have been leaping to her defense, swearing that she’s not a lesbian. (Who knew that enjoying softball was a sure indicator of homosexuality?).
Politico.com provides too much information:
“I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” said Sarah Walzer, Kagan’s roommate in law school and a close friend since then. “She dated men when we were in law school, we talked about men — who in our class was cute, who she would like to date, all of those things. She definitely dated when she was in D.C. after law school, when she was in Chicago – and she just didn’t find the right person.”…
Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don’t think it is my place to say more.”…
Walzer recalled “discussion about who she might be interested in – the usual girl talk stuff– talk about how to get his attention.”
Just as Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” we say that sometimes “sliding headfirst into home plate” is just a description of a play in softball and not a sexual euphemism.
Far as we’re concerned, being a lesbian shouldn’t disqualify Kagan from being on the Supreme Court. But being friends with a scumball like Eliot Spitzer for 30 years is another matter.
Source: Politico.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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I hereby sentence myself to 2 hours of listening to Nancy Pelosi's greatest speeches. Oh, the pain !!!!
USN-RET, isn't there something in the Constitution barring cruel and unusual punishment?
When asked why the masochist was dating a sadist they replied "Beats me". ;-)
"rimshot"
Comedy gold, USN-RET, comedy gold!
Just to bring up the obvious tie-in with the picture, so far no one has suggested the possibility that she's a "switch-hitter".
( It's not a pretty job, but someone had to do it ! ) ;-)
I obviously can't reed reel gud - didn't even notice the title for the article. Duhhh :-(
Gay or not, I wonder: is her favorite rock group Queen or AC/DC?
She looks like a K.D. Lang fan to me.
I was going to say Indigo Girls or Melissa Etheridge.
If she is gay then she is gay. Whatever. What I want to know is will she be a liberal gone wild and crazy for the next 25-30 or even 40 years? (Assuming that she does get confirmed).
Eliot Spitzer as a personal friend? Yuck!
Why would it be necessary to go on the defensive on this subject matter when (as far as I know) no one has called it into question in the first place? It's not somethng I would care about anyway.
Who cares? This is nothing but a distraction. The real questions that need to be answered are how big a stateist she is, how likely is she to subvert the Constitution, and should she be defeated.
I think that how she handled the plagarism scandle while dean at Harvard is enough for me. Don't care if she's a skilled bunter or not.
Think Kagan ever teabagged? Just askin'.
Nope.