05-15-2014, 11:53 AM
For a little perspective, the admitted discomfort that people like MS feel, that they attribute to "I just don't want to see it" is nearly identical to the rant that just cost Donald Sterling his NBA team. Replace gay guys with black guys, and you have some ignorant white pricks saying "do what you want in private but never let anybody see you." For that matter, the girl everybody is talking about who got booted from her prom for supposedly being dressed provocatively: does anybody think the reaction in Virginia might have been different if her date wasn't a black dude?
PDA discomfort is a cop out and anybody who's ever seen a beer commercial knows public Sexuality displays are everywhere. Michael Sam got the realization of a lifelong dream and happily kissed his love interest, same as any of us would do. Do I need to go look at it? Not really. Do I feel like I ought to be offended or even care? Not really. But the fact that so many people DO still care is exactly why this kind of stuff has to happen. Tolerance only happens with indifference.
PDA discomfort is a cop out and anybody who's ever seen a beer commercial knows public Sexuality displays are everywhere. Michael Sam got the realization of a lifelong dream and happily kissed his love interest, same as any of us would do. Do I need to go look at it? Not really. Do I feel like I ought to be offended or even care? Not really. But the fact that so many people DO still care is exactly why this kind of stuff has to happen. Tolerance only happens with indifference.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.