Gay sports writers?

A couple of responses.

First of all, kaylee, I know a lot of women who do get annoyed and even uncomfortable when a man they find unattractive checks them out. I applaud your attitude, but not all women share it.

Secondly, women are more comfortable with homosexual women than men are with homosexual men. It's a societal thing. Not saying it is right or fair, but it's true.

Personally, I don't care, as long as the guy isn't doing it with the intent of making me uncomfortable. Unfortunately, one of the first openly gay men I ever met used to do that very thing to men he knew were heterosexual. He'd flirt with them or hit on them for a reaction. His way of proving a point, in his mind. In my mind, he was behaving like an asshole.

 

Point of order ... an answer to your question has been sent PM.

Bears ... thanks for the update. But dang ... was looking for a Tiger replacement for Bobby Higginson.

 

Well, and to clarify, I wasn't talking about the leering, obvious kind of "checking out." More like the simple noticing someone, finding them attractive sort of thing which we all do.

Personally, I don't care if that sort of thing is vocalized or not, but I'll admit that I'm a bit liberal in that sense. But never have I encountered any situation of a gay man "coming on" to a straight man, something the hate-mongers seem to think happens on a constant basis.

Hell, why do you think there are gay bars, gay clubs, gay personal ads, gay chat sites and gay magazines? In today's hateful climate, it would be downright dangerous for a gay man to hit on anyone in a not-gay setting. If I were gay, never in a zillion years would I consider coming on to an attractive man unless I saw him in a gay club or something. With so many sickos like Yawn and such out there, I'd be damned sure to keep my sexuality under wraps unless I was in a 100% safe environment.

Which is sad...fear like that is exactly what's wrong with our country and the people in it.

 

To answer the question about percentages of the gay population, the 3 percent to 10 percent is pretty acceptable.

It is generally believed that 3 percent of the population is admittedly gay. But that doesn't account for those who are in the closet, those who are bisexual and those who have "experimented." When you take into account those segments, the general belief is closer to 10 percent.

And yes, there is no reason to believe any segment of the population is immune to those figures.

But just for the sake of argument, let's say it's just 1 percent that is strictly gay. That means of the four major sports, there are about 5 gay NBAers, 6 gay NHLers, 8 gay Major League Baseball players and 15 gay NFLers any given season.

And those, my fellow SportsJournalists.comers, are the statistical absolute minimums.

 

you know how ya'll do. You use women for procreation and little boys for your lust and love. Greek and Roman times haven't stopped.

Look at Dateline!

 

I think he thinks I'm a boy. It almost makes sense then . . . almost.

 

i've always assumed all of the homosexual journalists work as food critics and entertainment writers.

 

Don't know if it's been mentioned here, but Ed Gray of the Boston Herald came out in the paper around the time of the whole Piazza nonsense.

 

you outidiot even yawn.

 

Now, now, Thomas. No one can out-idiot yawn. Well, except idiotsnetwork.

Actually, come to think of it, we need to establish a hierarchy of SportsJournalists.com idiocy.

 

we need to come up with something like the jaywalk all-stars, much like leno does on the tonight show.

 

Apparently one tipoff is enjoying "Handbags and Gladrags" by Rod Stewart. ;D