(May 11, 2014 at 9:26 am)Shaggy Wrote: Yea busts and surprises happen every year. But you're setting it up so that if he busts it's because he's gay. You're emphasizing his sexuality even more than what I saw on nfl network yesterday. But it's ok for you do to it because you're in support of him? I don't think so.
I look at him and see a football player. You're looking at him and seeing a gay football player that should get a shot because he's gay.
He will get a shot. If he's good enough, he'll make the team. If he's not, he won't. NFL teams generally don't give a shit about what players do off the field. All they care about is guys that can help them win.
BULLSHIT, skip the labels for a second. There would be no need for "first this" or "first that" if there were no other humans prior being xenophobes. I am not setting him up for anything. Think about any other minority in history like blacks and women who were the "first this" or "first that".
You are doing the same shit whites did to blacks when they first started breaking into pro sports. "We shouldn't make it about skin color". NO SHIT, and the only way to get to that point is for people like him to be open so that the next gay player won't have to go through the same shit. Just like blacks don't have to go through the same shit like they did in the 40s 50s 60s and 70s as pro players.
Seriously, you act like my former theist co workers. My former store manager said "I don't care about you being an atheist, I care about you". Bullshit, he used that as a cop out excuse to shut down conversation and avoid the fact that others were different than him. He never really cared about me, in fact I have been unemployed for 4 months now, not once has he come by to check up on me to make sure I am ok.
He is gay, that is part of him. No one bats an eye when a straight player kisses their girlfriend or wife. If you insist on him or me not making it an issue then be consistent and stop straight people from doing the same in celebratory situations like that. Otherwise you are asking him not to be himself in public. He doesn't owe you shit and your baggage is not his.
