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POPSFemale Athletes Face Stereotypes OMG, why are women athletes presumed to be only lesbian? This really says something about our society, first of all the fact that homophobia is still alive and well and secondly that women have their place and it's not as an athlete, God forbid, that might be too "unfeminine". I played college basketball and it was purely for the love of the sport. My orientation had nothing to do with it.