wejo wrote:
There is this line:
"In your high school yearbook, did you mention drinking and sexual exploits? Kavanaugh does not reply “Of course! I was a sports jock!”
At Yale I felt some of the professors really looked down on athletes and stereotyped them. The author of the piece does the same thing. Her implication is that sports jocks are all about drinking and sexual exploits.
A professor at my law school once said something along the lines of "all those guys playing sports in high school will be pumping your gas" or something along those lines. Oblivious to the fact that, you know, most of the people at the law school had played sports in high school and many in college.
That being said, I don't think the author meant to look down on the sports type person, I think it was supposed to be saying that Kavanaugh should have embraced that stereotype (as it seemed true in his case). At any rate, Kavanaugh's attempts to imply that playing sports made it LESS likely that he was a partier or excessive drinker, didn't make any sense (except for maybe in season if the players all made a pact, which is sometimes the case ... and makes for a very large party at the end of the football season).