Sexual Bodies III

As time goes on yes, sports are becoming a safe place for some LGBT communities. If you are a woman it is more common fro you to come out that you are a Lesbian or Bi-sexual and get no slack for it, but if you are a man it is much harder to come out. As we seen in training rules and even with Brittney Greinger, both these women went to schools that required them to keep their sexuality on the down low in order to stay on the team. So often do men and women get discriminated upon. Even when we have this talk in class I can feel the discomfort from my fellow classmates and how uncomfortable this topic makes them. Sport can be welcoming depending on location and the people but in some places like a religious based school or an older school that still has not come up to date with the changes that are happening, these can be very difficult and scary places.

One way that many people need to change is the way they think. Many people think someone who is actively and openly gay or lesbian is going to hit on them or look at them with sexual thoughts, but they have preferences just like anyone else. We do not say anything about a heterosexual man or woman looking at us so why is it so different when someone of the same sex does it? We are taught this is wrong but in all reality who is to say the way someone wants to live their life is wrong or right? We all lives our lives differently and to some our ways are wrong but their is not a big deal made of it. We can allow for men and women to cheat on their husbands and athletes to be promiscuous but they are not allowed to be open about their sexuality? The way things work and the way people think need to be tweaked a little so we can understand the ways of modern times. Times are charging which means the way of our thinking needs to change as well.