I’m tired of the homophobia expressed towards Karl Anthony Towns

bro is just soft spoken and doing his thing. It doesn’t fucking matter what his sexuality is because there are no out players in the nba. I can see why – any time someone slightly dips into a high voice, or dresses different, they are ostracized. I have seen multiple clips of NYC street interviews, ‘give us your best KAT impression,” they’re doing the same gay voice that was a played joke 10 years ago when I was in high school. You can hear the hate dripping from it. Just got a clip of Lonzo Ball getting interviewed by Cameron Brink – egging him on to make fun of KAT and he won’t and Brink just starts doing the voice. What the hell is wrong with people? Do they just not understand how fucking rude they seem? it’s funny to see clips of Kat, whatever, but the entire media apparatus is borderline bullying bro right now for something he doesn’t even publicly identify as. It’s disgusting.

edit: all the replies too scared to say some real choice words and catch a reddit ban. we used to have a word for “zesty” online in the 2010s too, and it wasn’t necessarily coming from a place of bigotry – we just used it to keep other guys in check about what was acceptable behavior. same thing happening here, just being typed by way softer hands who can’t stand behind what they’re actually making fun of.