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3.27.2002
Queer as Kent: Jeff Kent of the Houston Astros showed what he?s made of last year when as a member of the San Francisco Giants he hesitated before taking his towel off in the locker room one day by asking the assembled media if there were any ?queers? or ?women'?among them.
Kent?s comments went largely unnoticed, but he defended himself in the current issue of ESPN the Magazine. Here is Kent?s explanation of the incident:
I'm not John Rocker. I made a joke. I'd just come out of the shower. I'm about to drop my towel and I've got 30 media people around me. So I asked, 'Did you talk to Barry yet?' They said 'Barry gave us the bird.' I said, 'Then let me give you this.' I didn't see any women, so I dropped my towel and quickly pulled on my underwear. Everyone laughed. Then I said, 'I hope I didn't offend any women or queers in here.' Is it bad to say queer? Hell, there's a Showtime series called Queer as Folk. I went to Berkeley. I don't have a problem with homosexuals.
We?re not buying Kent?s reasoning. In his context, ?queer? was not said as a term of empowerment but rather as a putdown. He remains a jerk.
