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Look in it, there are NFL players in there. But had to add some speed and some brute strength as well.

Wait....Brian Boitano's gay?

Sam is absolutely a first. Has there ever been a Division I football player to publicly come out while still active? If so, I can't think of one.
I certainly wouldn't compare Ray McDonald to Sam. On the contrary, McDonald is almost a cautonary tale of what can happen to a gay person who doesn't feel comfortable expressing who he is. He stayed in the closet the whole time he was playing (it was the late 60's), was eventually arrested for having sex with a man in a car, I think, and when he died of AIDS in his 40's, his family told the media that he had died of sickle-cell anemia because they didn't want the stigma of being gay attached to him even in death.

The stigma for women, while it still exists, is much, much different than it is for men and especially for football players. Brian Boitano? Really? I think most poeple would be surprised if you told them a male figure skater was straight. (Psst... I think Johnny Weir is gay too....)

If his coming out doesn't mean anything to you, that's fine. No one says it has to.

You're missing my point. I don't give a damn, in all honesty.

What is annoying the snot out of me is all the fawning over it to the exclusion of actual news. If people are supposed to take such things as daily issues (which they already are) then can we get on with the rest of the daily stuff and let people with every point of view say their piece and let it all go already.

You've missed the hundreds of hours of prime time news where people are actually saying everyone should be dancing in the streets about this. If you say anything about who the hell cares, then you're branded some leper type and shouted down.

Let's get on with life already. Let it all go.

You should take your own advice.

For someone who doesn't give a damn, you have pretty strong opinions about it. You honestly do not give a damn, but it annoys the snot out of you? Which is it?

It is possible, you know, to not care about something without telling everyone around you how much you don't care. It's easy: you just...don't care.

Don't we all have to sit through hundreds of hours of pointless non-actual-news-related stuff on tv that doesn't interest or appeal to us? Like you said-- let it all go. Get on with life. There's no surer way to a life of being p.o.ed and stressed out all the time than to devote a lot of emotional energy to trying to understand why people don't see the world in exactly the same way that we do, or worse, expecting people different from us to act the same as us.

You tell people "who the hell cares?" about something they care (or think they care) about, and you wonder why their reaction is to brand you a leper? As someone who himself feels very strongly about certain subjects and who is, I think we can all agree, fairly confident in his opinions on many subjects, you of all people should understand that reaction.


I agree wwith you that, from my pov, much more has been made of this subject than needed to be made, but who am I to tell others how to think and feel? Let 'em have their party.

I'm guessing you're being intentionally obtuse so I'll quit here.
Enjoy your evening.

I solved this problem for myself a few years ago. I just get my news online and pick the content I want. Now, I couldn't imagine watching or listening to an entire news program, especially if they were discussing something that actively annoyed me.