[ckissick]

The Michael Sam issue got me thinking. (He's the College senior and star football player who announced he's gay last week. Should make the NFL draft more interesting.) Anyway, I have no problem with him. Whatever.

But it got me to thinking about the locker room and the showers. Men aren't allowed in a women's locker room and showers. Women aren't allowed in a men's locker room and showers. Why, exactly, is that? Now apply the answer(s) to that question to the case of a gay person in a shower with members of their own sex. Is that OK? If so, why? Or why not?

I don't really see a difference. If you put a naked man in a shower with a bunch of naked women (lucky guy!), I'm guessing some of the women won't care, some will enjoy it, as long as he's good looking, but a good portion will be very upset. We don't allow it so as not to upset the latter group. Is a gay man in a men's shower any different? I'd be in the "don't care" group. But I bet there would be many who would have a problem with it. Are they homophobes? Or are they merely uneasy having a guy checking out his junk and having certain thoughts?

Because rest assured, if Michael Sam is drafted, as he likely will be, he will be sauntering into those NFL showers with the rest of the guys.