Wanted... More Gay Footballers.....

[ToraToraTora]

This chap is feeling very lonely...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64888400

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe there just aren’t any?

[sp1814]

Z-M

Statistically improbable.

[sp1814]

TTT

You’ve not accurately represented the message of the article.

[andy-hughes]

Football remains one of the last bastions of homophobia.

It's bound by its gang culture, and its toxic masculinity, it will take decades before it's the last bigot factory to shut its doors.

[ToraToraTora]

sp, the guy claims to be the only gay footballer in Scotland, how have I misrepresented that?

[ToraToraTora]

AH, "Football remains one of the last bastions of homophobia. " - which is ironic because if you watched a game you'd think that they were all gay.

[gness]

TTT has missed representing the message by miles, Sp.

[rowanwitch]

One day, not in my lifetime questions like this will be irrelevant, when we accept that a person's sexuality has *** all to do with their ability to participate in sport or anything else. What people do in their bedroom, or wherever else they choose, is just a part of who they are, it should not be taken as the key thing that defines them.

[sp1814]

TTT

The article focusses on why other gay men who play professional football don’t feel comfortable living honestly - it’s not about Murray’s feelings of loneliness, rather the fear of others.

[ToraToraTora]

You mean he has made an assumption that there are others?

[Zacs-Master]

Exactly!

[sp1814]

I assume he’s using common sense based on mathematical probability.

[gness]

Do you know that there aren't, TTT? Or are you assuming there aren't?

For all you know he may be supporting others who haven't come out.
If he helps youngsters who may be struggling with their sexuality is that a bad thing?

[Zacs-Master]

The point is, he’s assuming there is.

[ToraToraTora]

gness: "Do you know that there aren't, TTT? Or are you assuming there aren't? " - no I don't, any more than he knows there is.

[naomi24]

As Rowan says what people do in their bedroom is their business which is true - but no one asked him. He decided to make his business ours.

[Zacs-Master]

Exactly (again). Unprovable.

[Zacs-Master]

The BBC asked him, Naomi. I wonder why they did that?

[naomi24]

He ‘came out’ last September.

[gness]

How do know that he is assuming, Zacs? How do you know that he isn’t caring of others by protecting them? Not that he should have to but……..