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Lucy Goosey

(2,940 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 06:39 PM Mar 2012

Rick Santorum says, “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls

Santorum tells young man not to use pink bowling ball ‘on camera’

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday told a young man not to use a pink ball at a bowling alley in Wisconsin.

“You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera,” he said, according to Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.


Look at Ricky, saving the kid from being photographed with something pink! I mean, some people might see a male with a pink bowling ball and assume he's gay! Of course, anyone making that assumption is probably a bigot, but bigots are Rick's base, no?

The Human Rights Campaign, the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group in the country, blasted Santorum for his comment.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/santorum-tells-young-man-not-to-use-pink-bowling-ball-on-camera/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
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Rick Santorum says, “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls (Original Post) Lucy Goosey Mar 2012 OP
So pink ball = gay? sakabatou Mar 2012 #1
pink ball = feminine = invites misogyny from caveman repukes Skittles Mar 2012 #2
I guess it is sakabatou Mar 2012 #3
Frothy most likely would advise against the black one too!! lunasun Mar 2012 #4
XD sakabatou Mar 2012 #5
My husband of 38 years wears pink shirts HockeyMom Mar 2012 #6
Some of my male coworkers wear pink, too! JaneQPublic Mar 2012 #18
Mr. Manly Santorum disapproves and wants your husband to step outside. Kablooie Mar 2012 #20
Who is Ricky trying to win over? The elementary school bully crowd? And what about purple and green? freshwest Mar 2012 #7
He prefers blue balls when cliffordu Mar 2012 #8
My Vietnam vet stepdad wears pink shirts all the time. arbusto_baboso Mar 2012 #9
I don't think Rick is very comfortable with his own masculinity...n/t monmouth Mar 2012 #10
Most homophobes aren't. obxhead Mar 2012 #16
Could of been, the pink ball was the weight the guy felt most at east using. . . Journeyman Mar 2012 #11
We're not gonna let you do that. WTF? Some of the toughtst around are pink and proud! Mopar151 Mar 2012 #12
This is something I'd expect to hear from a little kid. Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #13
I'd hate to think of what he'd imagine about my closet... brooklynite Mar 2012 #14
I think Rick Santorum spends too much time jerseygal Mar 2012 #15
Only Rick Santorum would think about that... Mr.Turnip Mar 2012 #17
Santorum facultyandstaffshow Mar 2012 #19

sakabatou

(42,180 posts)
3. I guess it is
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 06:45 PM
Mar 2012

I've never bowled with a pink ball. Colored balls usually professional, right? The ones that aren't are usually black.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
6. My husband of 38 years wears pink shirts
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 06:52 PM
Mar 2012

So do many of his coworkers. Oh, Ricky, get with the program. Real men can and do wear PINK. My lesbian daughter loves purple. I wear purple too. So what? Personally, as a straight woman I HATE pink. It looks terrible on me. Pink looks better on my husband than me.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
18. Some of my male coworkers wear pink, too!
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:17 AM
Mar 2012

And they're all career military types (one of whom is also a fundamentalist Christian). However, as such, they openly admit that they rely on their wives to pick out their clothes, because in the service they always got told what to wear.

When by chance a couple of them wore pink on the same day, they began joking that they'd designate one day/week as pink day!

When some other guys at work tried to make an issue of it, I told them not to think of it as pink, but "faded red," if it made them more comfortable.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
7. Who is Ricky trying to win over? The elementary school bully crowd? And what about purple and green?
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 06:53 PM
Mar 2012

This is like that Hitler shampoo ad they were running in Turkey. And just think, people are voting for this wingnut.

arbusto_baboso

(7,162 posts)
9. My Vietnam vet stepdad wears pink shirts all the time.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:09 PM
Mar 2012

He was 31 years in uniform, and part of MACV-SOG. He has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone about his masculinity, and if anyone implied he was gay or effeminate, he'd just laugh. Then he'd lecture that person about their assumptions and prejudices...

Journeyman

(15,042 posts)
11. Could of been, the pink ball was the weight the guy felt most at east using. . .
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:26 PM
Mar 2012

that, and the span of the finger holes, are the two most critical factors for a bowling ball, especially one you pull off the public rack.

Or maybe Santorum didn't want the guy using a "girl's color" and it had no significance beyond a residual childhood memory.

I know I for one am not going to be bothered by this.

Mopar151

(10,002 posts)
12. We're not gonna let you do that. WTF? Some of the toughtst around are pink and proud!
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:56 PM
Mar 2012

The quickest and fastest street car in America is Larry Larson's Nova, seen here in it's original Pink. It's blue and silver as well, now, but still has a stripe of the original pink.



This thing is an f'n MISSLE! It has run 6.9 seconds @ 204 mph , and has done so several times as a winner of Hot Rod magazine's "Drag Week", where competitors run 5 different dragstrips in a week, driving between them on public roads - about 1000 miles - with NO support vehicles. Small trailers can be towed for tires, fuel, etc. Several magazine editors have driven the car on the street, and say that, once you get the hang of the 5-speed Lenco transmission's multiple shift levers, the car drives very well
It takes serious skill, and oversize titanium balls, to race this beast - calculations show 2300 hp at the wheels to run these speeds. Call big Larry a pantywaist, and he'll probably just laugh and go back to wrenching on a fellow competitor's car - the other thing he's known for on Drag Week



Shirley would likely slap little ricky into next week - she never was one to take crap from fools.

204 mph pass. The misfire (flames) at the start line control launch RPM and 'spool up" the twin turbos - much like rally car "anti-lag"

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
13. This is something I'd expect to hear from a little kid.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:57 PM
Mar 2012

Seriously, is Rick a 5 year old boy in a grown man's body? This is the type of stuff I used to worry about when I was in kindergarten! He makes Romney seem sane.

brooklynite

(94,761 posts)
14. I'd hate to think of what he'd imagine about my closet...
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 08:06 PM
Mar 2012

I've been married for thirty years; I have three pink knit shirts and my dress shirts are every color of the rainbow.

Mr.Turnip

(645 posts)
17. Only Rick Santorum would think about that...
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 11:57 PM
Mar 2012

No one thinks about Balls as much as Rick Santorum!! I'm still waiting for the Santorum gay sex scandal to break out.

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