<div class="quote_poster">nextlevelgame Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">If you want to go on being ignorant and ignoring that there is a real world out there, sure. I think you should care, and that it is a big issue. Not that just RJ is bisexual and you should think it's gross, but how it effects the world of team sports. </div>
Who ever said I was being ignorant of it affecting the world of sports? Please reread my post before jumping to conclusions. I said it doesn't affect me in any way.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting nextlevelgame:</div><div class="quote_post">Look at the steroid issue with the MLB. Are you going to tell me that you ignored that?</div>
To be completely honest I didn't care about them using steroids. It is their choice if they want to use that. Also using an illegal drug to enhance your playing capabilities and being bi-sexual are not even in the same book, nor library. There is no comparison and I don't even know why you mentioned it.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting nextlevelgame:</div><div class="quote_post">Look, RJ being bisexual isn't the same as an enhancing performance drug and it won't effect him on the court as steriods would for sports players. That's not what I'm getting at. What I am getting at with these examples are these are controversial hotbeds that should be explored, if say RJ decides to become public with his homosexuality (this is all depending on whether this is true or not, because like everyone said, the source is not too credible). But, regardless of whether its true or not, there is a prevalent homophobia among sports athletes, particularly among African-American males. So to the teammates of these players, they'll feel alienated and the player will be alienated, especially in shower situations + celebration situations, so there should be discussion about the ambiguity of them.</div>
Unless you are in those locker rooms with those players then I highly doubt you know he is being "alienated" because of his sexual orrientation. If it is RJ and Jason Kidd or Carter knew of it, how do you know they will act different? Maybe they just brush it aside. It is not like he is hitting on them.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting nextlevelgame:</div><div class="quote_post">All this "I don't care", "It shouldn't matter" policy is just another way of saying "I say I don't care and it doesn't matter, but what I really means is that I don't want to know cause I fear the implications of it".</div>
No, it is just that. I don't really care. Why do you insist on fighting with the forum goers that they should care that he is bi-sexual? He likes both male and female, good for him. Does he still play in the NBA? Good, because that is why I watch him.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting nextlevelgame:</div><div class="quote_post">I mean, most of you are kids right now, I guess I'm fighting a lost cause and I hope in your college years you discover more about the meaning behind controversial issues and the need to put them in an open forum rather than silence and overlook them.</div>
Do I really need to pick his sexual orrientation out and pay that much attention to it? Does the whole world have to know? I mean that is the implication you are putting on.
Hold on, I'm going to fight the good fight like you are doing, and I'm going to get everyone to notice this and not be "ignorant". I'll start putting signs up.
Did everyone see that? Good, don't stay "silent and overlook" it.
Point being, watch the game for what it is. Basketball. You're trying to be too indepth about a subject that doesn't matter to you, and a subject that shouldn't to the NBA.