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A R Y
from the men’s tour. While Jimmy Connors and
and McBrat and countless other men of
W hat qualities make □ good role model? Nasty
similar whine polluted the air with their
mouths, the women were welcome relief. They
Bob Padecky responds to born-again
were dignified and classy and at their worst,
they looked sad, not petty.
Christian, former tennis pro
And you may remember, Maggie, how all
In
fact,
one
avowed
heterosexual
particu
eyes
were riveted on Martina. She was No. 1 in
BY B O B
P A D E C K Y
larly
stood
out.
You
may
have
heard
of
him.
He
the world, but she had to win people over. It
New York Times News Service played your sport—John McEnroe. Yes, that
wasn’t easy for her, if you remember. Oh, the
flaming heterosexual. The one that wasn’t
Margaret Court Smith
fight she waged, the fight against stereotype.
housebroken. That one.
3213 Prehistoric Lane Perth
She looked like a man, so she would act like a
Naturally, this confused me. It didn’t appear man. Juvenile and boorish. Just like the men.
Australia
that sexual preference had anything to do with
But Martina wasn’t like that, was she,
decency. I tried to think of it another way.
ear Mrs. Court:
Maggie? She poked fun at herself. She didn’t
It was with great interest this week that I
I wracked my brain thinking if there were
pout at a bad call. Once tennis crowds began to
read your social commentary on Martina
ever a sentence of a Super Bowl story that read, trust her personality, to scratch past her surface,
Narvratilova.
“Joe Montana, who has a love of women,
they played with her as much as she played
You caused quite a stir when you said
routed the Broncos this Sunday afternoon.” I
with them . They traded quips with each other,
Martina is a poor role model for children
couldn’t recall one reference in any sports story each reminding the other this was still a game
aspiring to play tennis because she is a
about who is kissing whom, unless, of course,
not a threat to world peace. In fact, to many
homosexual. I was immediately intrigued with we’re talking about Joe Namath. Naturally, this and
tennis fans, Martina was the first athlete they
that opinion because I have a 4-year-old
confused me more. No one seemed to care who had watched who they knew was a homosexual.
daughter, Allison. Soon we’ll be searching for Montana hugged. I wonder why it would be any Martina made a lot of people relax their fears, if
role models. I have high hopes for Allison as a different with Martina? So I tried to think of it not discard them altogether.
professional athlete, although at this stage I am still another way.
Lordy, the pressure she was under. She
a little discouraged because she is still learning
Maybe Martina threw rackets and tantrums didn’t buckle, did she, Maggie? She became the
how to work the pedals on her tricycle. But a
and a right cross at a linesman. Maybe Martina best female player ever under the most trying of
role model is a role model, no matter what walk went into detox or gambled her life away or
circumstances. Leaving her homeland. Living
of life. There are so precious few of them that if cried like a baby if she lost or dealt enough
a foreign country with no friends. Deposing
someone can help me in my search, all the
drugs to float Columbia. Maybe Martina wasn’t in America’s
Sweetheart, Chris Evert. And not
better. And because I take your comments to
well-liked by her peers and didn’t contribute to once, through
any of this, did she disgrace
mean that Martina would be acceptable if she
charities and was a general pain-in-the-butt to
herself.
wasn’t a homosexual, I began to look at
all who met her.
So I can’t help but come to a fairly obvious
heterosexuals for the proper inspiration.
Certainly, all these behaviors would qualify conclusion.
If one day Allison asks me whom I
As a sportswriter, it has been my good
Martina as a poor role model. But you know,
admire
in
women’s
tennis, Marina Navratilova
fortune to have met many of them. Pete Rose,
once again, try as I may, I couldn’t find one
is my champion, and you Margaret Court
Brian Bosworth, Denny McLain, George
newspaper story that mentions any such
Smith, certainly are not.
Steinbrenner, Steve Howe, lilis Nastase, Ben
actions. In fact, I found the contrary. This is
Johnson, The University of Oklahoma football what really puzzled me. I’m sure it will puzzle
team. I’m not sure whether these were the role you, too. As you know, tennis fans turned to
Sincerely,
models you had in mind.
women’s tennis in the ’80s as a welcome relief Bob
D
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