Re: Jason Collins
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 9:13 pm
If I take this in the context of your current "location", I really have to doubt your Jersey credentials.The Sybian wrote:so he is part way there.
Half!
He's half way there.
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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If I take this in the context of your current "location", I really have to doubt your Jersey credentials.The Sybian wrote:so he is part way there.
I am going to meet you the other half of the way and concede my Jersey street cred (gladly). I have no idea what you mean. I don't count my Hoboken years as living in Jersey, so I really just moved to Jersey at 28 or 29 yo, so I can't claim much Jerz-cred.rass wrote:If I take this in the context of your current "location", I really have to doubt your Jersey credentials.The Sybian wrote:so he is part way there.
Half!
He's half way there.
HaulCitgo wrote:The % of gay soccer players has to be 3-5x that of football players, no?
I think I wrote about this idea above. I really don't think locker rooms will be a problem. Sure, you'll get the rare outspoken anti-gay teammate, but they will be very few. Teams have always dealt well with all kinds of differences. It's one of the great things about sports. The power of a team to bring guys together who otherwise wouldn't know or like each other is present from pee wee to the pros.The Sybian wrote:BTW, anyone see Charles Barkley comment on Collins? I meant to post his TNT pregame show round table. He said every player in the NBA has played with gay players, and he knows of at least 3 or 4 teammates that were gay. He made it sound like he knew at the time, and that his teammates knew at the time that the players were gay and nobody cared. He said the whole locker room issue is made up by the media, and players don't care. Interesting if true, but Barkley isn't the normal player in any way. I hope he is right. I don't doubt that most players have had gay teammates, but I don't think they knew it at the time. But, WTF do I know?
Johnnie wrote:The locker room aspect kind of reminds me about the shop aspect when DADT was still a thing in the military.
Everyone knew someone who was gay. In fact, there were open gays I knew of that kind of dared someone to speak out about them. The burden of proof was on the accuser. The other aspect of DADT was "don't pursue." That was never a topic discussed anywhere. You want to accuse someone of being gay? You better have evidence that you didn't obtain it through coercion. Unless the person self identified, it went nowhere.
So, like how Barkley notes that it's the media going bonkers over gays in the NBA, it was members of Congress going bonkers over gays in the military. The shittiest part about the latter was that it was usually some dumbfuck GOP dude with zero military experience using "readiness" or "it's not right during wartime" as a lame excuse. Of course he knows fit to send us to Trashcanistan and Iraq (on God's orders!), but Allah forbid a friend of mine wants to be honest about himself/herself. All DADT did was give bible thumpers a license to witch hunt.
I was happy to see that Jason Collins noted all of the fearmongerers that said the military would collapse if gays could serve openly. Exactly none of that happened.
In the military if you show up on time and do your job, no one cares who you fuck on the weekends. I would imagine it's the same mindset in any environment where there's a 'team' dynamic -- like the NBA/NFL/any sport.
He's so well-spoken and articulate!The Sybian wrote:Johnnie wrote:The locker room aspect kind of reminds me about the shop aspect when DADT was still a thing in the military.
Everyone knew someone who was gay. In fact, there were open gays I knew of that kind of dared someone to speak out about them. The burden of proof was on the accuser. The other aspect of DADT was "don't pursue." That was never a topic discussed anywhere. You want to accuse someone of being gay? You better have evidence that you didn't obtain it through coercion. Unless the person self identified, it went nowhere.
So, like how Barkley notes that it's the media going bonkers over gays in the NBA, it was members of Congress going bonkers over gays in the military. The shittiest part about the latter was that it was usually some dumbfuck GOP dude with zero military experience using "readiness" or "it's not right during wartime" as a lame excuse. Of course he knows fit to send us to Trashcanistan and Iraq (on God's orders!), but Allah forbid a friend of mine wants to be honest about himself/herself. All DADT did was give bible thumpers a license to witch hunt.
I was happy to see that Jason Collins noted all of the fearmongerers that said the military would collapse if gays could serve openly. Exactly none of that happened.
In the military if you show up on time and do your job, no one cares who you fuck on the weekends. I would imagine it's the same mindset in any environment where there's a 'team' dynamic -- like the NBA/NFL/any sport.
Well said, Johnnie.
brian wrote:He's so well-spoken and articulate!The Sybian wrote: Well said, Johnnie.
jesus still dead...don't see what's confusing.
Gotcha. Makes sense now. Thank you.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:48 pm Johnnie - There was some kind of inside joke going on based on something I didn't have the energy to figure out. A couple of the 2013 threads were bumped this morning for some reason.
It most assuredly does not!Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:00 pmGotcha. Makes sense now. Thank you.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:48 pm Johnnie - There was some kind of inside joke going on based on something I didn't have the energy to figure out. A couple of the 2013 threads were bumped this morning for some reason.
Ohhhhhh. NOW I get it.
TIL Jayson Williams isn't dead either!A_B wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:28 pmjesus still dead...don't see what's confusing.
oops...I killed Jason Collins (I was thinking of the guy that shot the driver...didn't he die?). So what is happening is an ex post facto* realization that thread naming conventions were not being followed!
* - edit - I used this terrifically wrong I think. Thanks, Twitter Law University