Would you be uncomfortable sharing meat space with troglodyte homophobes?

Heterosexual people get beat up all time also. For no other reason then someone just didnt like them.

In fact when I was in high school the vast majority of kids being bullied were straight. They werent bullied because they were gay, they were being bullied because they made easy targets and people enjoyed picking on them

Just FTR, nowhere have I stated that I’m okay with any of this either. And here in Toronto I have yet to hear of gays being fired, kicked out of housing, jailed or killed for being gay. At least I would argue its not happening en masse.

I cant even think of isolated incidents quite frankly

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You do now half my team feels the same as I do, dont you. None of us want to shower with gays.

Of course we wont say so publicly because we might lose their jobs. So we just say it privately behind your backs

And you’re not gonna change our minds. But keep living in your idealistic, utopian, rainbow world if it makes you feel better.

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Also, I noticed nobody has commented on this article yet.

Wasnt there a poster in another thread who said male sexual harrassment isnt a problem in the world?!

LOL

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You’re actually on a sports team? What sport?

I believe you are mistaken in the phrasing or intention of whatever it is you are almost remembering from the other thread. Male-on-male sexual harassment is statistically insignificant compare to make-on-female sexual harassment or simple male-on-male brutality (without a sexual element).

And, as has been said, predators are criminals regardless of their orientation and should be treated as such. Ordinary persona are ordinary persons as well, regardless of orientation, and should be treated with respect.

It doesnt matter if the numbers are less then women, the fact is it does occur, and it occurs a lot more often then you are willing to concede.

Did you even read the article?! US Marine Jeremiah Arbogast: male rape in military is 'about power' - BBC News

Thousands of men, is thousands of men too many!
And those are just the ones being reported. What about unreported ones??!

If these were thousands of children being sexually harrassed, would you also say thats statistically insignificant?!

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I sure some are saying it, but don’t really believe it - just egged on by group macho posturing.

As an incidental note, I’m not even gay - I just know an attention-seeking idiot when I see one. Feel free to say whatever you want, privately. This board isn’t being enriched by your commentary.

I look forward to the inevitable pit thread when any of these other homophobic dip shits (meaning the idiot we’ve all already excoriated) actually does lose his “sports playing” job. :wink: Because, he’s just the comedy gold gift that keeps on giving. It won’t get much better than that, unless he joins ranks with the racist ass wipes crowing over the Trayvon Martin case. Birds of a feather and all that.

I was wondering the same thing. What sports team would choose a whiny, trembling socially stunted kid who is petrified of men? Marshmallow toss? Competitive knitting? Tag-team biscuit making?

Competitive tea brewing, sometimes called ‘tea-bagging.’

You’d have to fire about 50% of the NFL also: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16478679#post16478679

Who’s the dipshit now?! :wink:

Are you implying that YOUR status has been upgraded?

Umm… you are. The very same dipshit who is pee-pants terrified of unarmed men in the lockeroom. No chance I’d hire such a weak-minded, fearful dipshit to play a competitive, strenuous, full-contact sport. I’d advise such a weenie to skip sports altogether and consider sticking to online RPG’s.

You. You are still the dip shit dumb ass. Because, let’s see:

From those articles, it specifically stated two athletes who were willing to say they were uncomfortable and speculated there were more. No hard facts beyond those two. So, going with the pulling things out of my ass option, I speculate that you’re wildly wrong. Why? Because anyone with even half a brain (which you obviously lack) who can grasp the fact that they’ve undoubtedly been sharing locker room space with gay people since, well, there’s been locker rooms, understand that if they’ve done it in the past without incident, the future will probably be no different. Not to mention the repercussions if some poor, hapless gay fellow made the mistake of hitting on anybody.

Ha. You’re more of an idiot than I first thought and it amuses me greatly that you keep replying to me and trying to convince me that there are literally hoards of other homophobes on your side.

Esco, your obsession is showing. Maybe, just maybe if you keep talking about this with your teammates, maybe if you keep rolling your eyes and talking in derogatory terms about gay guys, and just maybe if you display a tiny bit more self-loathing some generous fellow will take you under his wing and show you that you have nothing to fear, nothing to be disgusted by, and prove to you that all men are created equal and there is nothing wrong with a little man on man lovin’.

And for all those quietly understanding and generous gay men who have facilitated the coming out of self-loathing, insecure, and scared gays: I salute you. The charitable service you’re doing is far more than I would ever be capable of when faced with such negativity. I’d just tell closeted Esco’s to go…play by themselves.

Troppus: Sound advice. It’s pretty obvious that what really distresses our little gayling is the prospect of having consensual partners so close at hand and being so sorely tempted by his own demonic urges.

I have no idea why you guys are taking this so personal.

If a woman came up to me and said she’d prefer to shower separate from the guys, I’d be more than willing to respect her wishes.

You guys arent gonna win this one. Gay athletes are too chicken to come out, only one NBA has last year, and he was a washed up player anyways, so it didnt matter.

I have no problem with gays on my team. I have a HUGE problem showering with them.

We will win this. you’ll see

Gay Mafia got another one, I see.

And you know we’re all prayin’ fer ya here at the old SDMB homestead. Fer shur. [completely non-gay winking smilie]

Have you told them this directly?