lemongoat Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 People are entitled to their opinions, even if they're aginst homosexuality. There are a million reasons people feel the way they do, and that's ok. What is not ok is people that are hateful, or misinformed, or hide behind the guise of HIV, like 35 years ago you would have been accepting of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henster311 Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 Its always kinda blown my mind that people are so adamantly supportive of a lifestyle where the people who participate are 18 times more likely to spread HIV. Being an African American, those chances increase. Whatever helps you sleep at night. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/07/20/biology-leaves-gay-men-highly-vulnerable-to-hiv-study It's always kinda blown my mind that people are so quick to demonize a sexual preference by marginalizing it as a "lifestyle". "The 18x more likely to contract HIV" statistic you cite is obviously rooted in a lack of education regarding the topic, not to mention the biology of males as a whole to participate in high-risk behavior. No one is a proponent of a dangerous, promiscuous lifestyle, and to blame the sexual preference rather than the uneducated people participating in the high-risk behavior is ignorant. Horse fucking? I can't even articulate how stupid a comparison that is. We could have this argument all day, but I know you're eager to imply false causation and use falsely-interpreted statistics to spread homophobia without making it look like your argument is coming purely from a place of hate, so...whatever helps you sleep at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 seeing conservatives/random people i know tweet multiple times about how this 'isn't news' blah blah blah is really disheartening for me. i see the dumbest stuff posted daily about amanda bynes' shenanigans or dogs balancing things on their face, but these people don't make a huge fuss about that. being gay shouldn't be a big deal, but it is in today's society because of people like that. dude is brave and should be proud of himself. I don't know about disheartening; I'd say ideally we would live in a world where this wouldn't be news. It should just be another facet of everyday life. I suspect that wasn't the angle your Twitter feed was aiming at, however. (And in their defense, that dog balancing shit on its head was awesome!) I think it's great that he's proudly living in the open now, though I don't exactly think it's a coincidence that he waited until his season was over, and he essentially became a FA. As much as I'd like to see him continue playing, he's pretty old by pro sports standards, and wasn't exactly racking up minutes this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Its always kinda blown my mind that people are so adamantly supportive of a lifestyle where the people who participate are 18 times more likely to spread HIV. Being an African American, those chances increase. Whatever helps you sleep at night. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/07/20/biology-leaves-gay-men-highly-vulnerable-to-hiv-study Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickman31 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 My two cents: Chris Kluwe isn't gay, he has a wife and kids.. He's just a big supporter of gay rights. Being gay isn't a choice, if it was, then being straight would also be a choice. And do you really think people would choose to be gay with the way society is? This isn't really an active athlete if he is a free agent. People need to accept each other, stories like this shouldn't be such a big deal. Some people are saying he's only doing this so when his contract expires he can hit them big for discrimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradedOnACurve Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 ^ That argument makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henster311 Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 ^ That argument makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickman31 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 ^ That argument makes no sense. He said "I don't think he's really gay" I simply said to him "Other people think that too, they think he's doing it because..." It was not an argument Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanRees Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Some people are saying he's only doing this so when his contract expires he can hit them big for discrimination. If you read the article he's already a free agent, he waited till he was so it wasn't a distraction to his team.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emo Revival Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 He said "I don't think he's really gay" I simply said to him "Other people think that too, they think he's doing it because..." It was not an argument He has no contract because he is a free agent so there is no one for him to sue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanRees Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 People need to accept each other, stories like this shouldn't be such a big deal. Women's rights & ending segregation shouldn't have had to be such big deals either. Unfortunately this is our generations civil rights movement, although fortunately most of our generation is smart enough to realize something needs to be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradedOnACurve Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 -Things like this are a big deal because there is still such opposition. There was a town in Georgia that still had segregated proms until this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/integrated-prom-georgia-wilcox-county-video_n_3181773.html - Also Mississippi just ratified the 13th Amendment this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/mississippi-13th-amendment_n_2712289.html - Alabama didn't officially overturn interracial marriage ban until 2000. These were supposed to be yesterday's issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 There is a movie about Jackie Robinson in theaters now, this is kind of a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickman31 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 - Also Mississippi just ratified the 13th Amendment this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/mississippi-13th-amendment_n_2712289.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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