The difference is that now they can stare at your ass and you have no choice but the leave or pitch a grenade in before you go in to the shower.
No, they can't just like you can't stare at a chick (*)(*)(*)(*)ting in the woods. I remember how hardcore sexual harassment classes were when it was just about straight people; I'd love to see one now. Next thing you know every infantry platoon is going to be hit with sexual harassment complaints just for existing.
why do they feel the need to come out anyway unless their desires are the most important thing in their lives?
Wouldn't doubt it. I really don't see this being an issue. In a few years no one will care and in a few decades people will think it was stupid DADT existed in the first place.
I doubt very seriously that a complaint from one troop about another one staring at him would go very far and if it did it would might be worse for the complainant than for the Homo. I see the prospect of more complaints from the homos when the shower empties when they go in. It may be sexual harassment to turn away from a homo in the shower?? You don't want to sleep above or below a homo and you get a homophobe mark on your record. Then there is the possibility of tension in the ranks when a straight guy thinks that a homo is coming on to him.
A free pass to what exactly? Under DADT.. if a soldier had a picutre of himself and his partner fall out of a wallocker.. that was grounds to kick him out... if the same happened to a soldier that had a partner of the opposite sex..it wouldnt be an issue. Is this the free pass your referring too? That this soldier putting his life in harms way while fullfilling his oath to the U.S military can be discharged from the military for simply being discovered as gay?
You find that threatening? Do you have something to share with the forum-like a latent longing, for example... Besides I'm sure you're not that attractive.
Queer is a more appropriate term, or homosexual, the word 'gay' has be hijacked and changed over the last decades by various groups and not overly indicative of a clear cut definition.
I suppose you would know better than me, how attractive I might be to homos. I have seen homos in the military attack straight men back in 1968. We dealt with it as you might expect. My complaint is one of Barry's favorite concerns related to the tax code; one of fairness. Taxing the rich at high levels will not help the economy but he thinks that it is fair and I think that if homos get to shower and sleep with the same sex straight men should get to shower and sleep with women. Fair is fair. there was a nurse in Thailand that I would have loved to shower with.
Are YOU attractive to homos? I was propositioned by a tiny ballerina about 1985 and it had NO impact on my sexual preferences.
Who cares if the guy is gay? Sharing their sexual appetitie is creepy. Just be a soldier! Forget the sex!
I highly doubt anything will happen when people 'clear the showers'. More than likely the gay soldiers will wait for the showers to be empty anyway so they don't make a strange situation out of it. I really don't see this being a problem. I'd have no problem showering with a gay soldier. Obviously if there was sexual harassment I'd deal with that but I highly doubt it would be a problem.
By PDA bans in schools? I haven't heard that claim yet, and if it's universally applied, such claims would have no merit anyway (which is probably why I haven't heard that claim). However, rstones did just provide 2 good examples of gays being picked on because of their sexual orientation. I mean, how often do you hear of heterosexuals being asked to leave a football game for kissing each other?
Jews have always been around too. So have women. So have Blacks. These groups of people have suffered way more than Gays have or will ever begin to brag about. Homosexuality has been embraced longer than time itself. They never had to prove themselves to anyone and yet, they haven't contributed much to society or human kind. Yes Blacks have contributed more to society than Gays. This is historically documented. What 'about' gay blacks? Not really. They've done a perfectly good job of making it seem that way themselves. A gay can pretty much avoid scrutiny by pretty much staying in the closest and no one will never know. It's not like Blacks could suddenly turn themselves white or Jews can suddenly turn themselves Austrian or German. If gays want to equate their struggle to anything like a real civil rights movement, let them show what they have contributed to society. If they cannot, I don't see any reason why I should value their input on anything really.
never, but it's only two times. then again, if heterosexuals were banned for that type of behavior it would not make the news.
The ones serving in the military have to prove something to you? Why dont you prove what you have done for society that makes you qualified to judge soldiers serving in war.. based on their sexuality and jews can majically stop being jews any time they want.. its a religion thing..
I'm talking about gays who think they are pretty much suffering at the hands of anyone trying else, why they are busy trying to force anyone else to accept their lifestyle. This doesn't uniquely cover any particular person.