NBA Players Hold Hands: No Big Deal, or 'Bro Code' Violation?
SodaHead Living April 26, 2011
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Gay high school kids rule prime-time TV, but apparently, it's still not OK for guys to hold hands.
Especially when they're NBA players.
A 10-second NBA replay showing Toronto Raptors guard Leandro Barbosa holding his teammate Reggie Evans' hand on their way to the locker room earlier this month forced YouTube to disable the (offensive) comments, the "Today" show reports.
So is the reaction to the NBA clip proof that homophobia is still alive and well?
"I didn't personally have a problem with the gesture on the (hand-holding) video," Cyrus Webb, a 35-year-old radio show host and blogger from Brandon, Miss., told the "Today" show. "But I can understand why some who are sensitive about what is seen to be a manly or masculine event would see it as something that wasn't cool."
According to a study released last fall by Bath University in England, "same-sex lip-locks among straight men are the norm in British universities and high schools."
But in the United States, affection between straight men is mostly limited to handshakes, back pats or at most, a "bro hug." (Barbosa happens to be Brazilian.)
Do you have an issue with the NBA clip? Or is about time for the "bro code" to be updated?
Especially when they're NBA players.
A 10-second NBA replay showing Toronto Raptors guard Leandro Barbosa holding his teammate Reggie Evans' hand on their way to the locker room earlier this month forced YouTube to disable the (offensive) comments, the "Today" show reports.
So is the reaction to the NBA clip proof that homophobia is still alive and well?
"I didn't personally have a problem with the gesture on the (hand-holding) video," Cyrus Webb, a 35-year-old radio show host and blogger from Brandon, Miss., told the "Today" show. "But I can understand why some who are sensitive about what is seen to be a manly or masculine event would see it as something that wasn't cool."
According to a study released last fall by Bath University in England, "same-sex lip-locks among straight men are the norm in British universities and high schools."
But in the United States, affection between straight men is mostly limited to handshakes, back pats or at most, a "bro hug." (Barbosa happens to be Brazilian.)
Do you have an issue with the NBA clip? Or is about time for the "bro code" to be updated?
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- Standardtoaster Apr. 26No big deal
NM just now
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Gay high school kids rule prime-time TV
Maybe Dark Shadows was to spooky eh
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I don't know who they are and if they are confirmed homosexuals but I suspect they are. Number 20's body language in the way he grabbed the other guy's hand look like he was into the other guy. It looks romantic. Doesn't look like a friend's only type of affection.
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I thought it was kind of funny.
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Then they can play with four balls!
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Pedophilia was almost unheard of when the gay behavior was illegal.
When will this deviant behavior end?
"However, it is still illegal in Holland to produce child pornography and to engage in pedophilia. This may soon change. The newly formed Charity, Freedom and Diversity party advocates reducing the legal age for sex from 16 to 12. Dutch pedophiles are also demanding that child pornography and sex with animals should be legal. Moreover, the party insists that citizens should be allowed to go naked in public."
"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told a Dutch newspaper. "We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said.
"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals," Van den Berg told Reuters.
Read more: Pedophiles launch
own political party http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=36...
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The Catholic church once attempted to link pedophilia with homosexuality and it turned out that there was no correlation. All of that money spent trying to pin it on "the gays" only to find out there's no connection.
Pedophilia was "almost unheard of" because the Catholic church was covering it up. Incidentally, when an old man kidnaps a young *GIRL* and rapes her repeatedly and forces her to bear him children, where's the "gay?"
http://www.psychologytoday.co...
The biggest misunderstanding many people have is that pedophilia and homosexuality are one and the same. But to say that all homosexuals are pedophiles, or that all pedophiles are homosexual, is like comparing apples to rat poison. "They certainly are two distinct things," says James Hord, a psychologist in Panama City, Fla., who specializes in treating sexually abused children.
http://www.webmd.com/sex-rela...
The distinction between a victim's gender and a perpetrator's sexual orientation is important because many child molesters don't really have an adult sexual orientation. They have never developed the capacity for mature sexual relationships with other adults, either men or women. Instead, their sexual attractions focus on children ...
The Catholic church once attempted to link pedophilia with homosexuality and it turned out that there was no correlation. All of that money spent trying to pin it on "the gays" only to find out there's no connection.
Pedophilia was "almost unheard of" because the Catholic church was covering it up. Incidentally, when an old man kidnaps a young *GIRL* and rapes her repeatedly and forces her to bear him children, where's the "gay?"
http://www.psychologytoday.co...
The biggest misunderstanding many people have is that pedophilia and homosexuality are one and the same. But to say that all homosexuals are pedophiles, or that all pedophiles are homosexual, is like comparing apples to rat poison. "They certainly are two distinct things," says James Hord, a psychologist in Panama City, Fla., who specializes in treating sexually abused children.
http://www.webmd.com/sex-rela...
The distinction between a victim's gender and a perpetrator's sexual orientation is important because many child molesters don't really have an adult sexual orientation. They have never developed the capacity for mature sexual relationships with other adults, either men or women. Instead, their sexual attractions focus on children – boys, girls, or children of both sexes.
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu...
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Just know that your way of thinking is why people are still oppressed...
And you are still wrong
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Either way, there is nothing wrong with homosexuality, and regardless of what you say, your attitude is still completely negative and ignorant.....
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** BOOM! ** (the sound of a gay promoter's head exploding)
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Then they can play with four balls!
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Or, more logically, pedophilia, which is a sexual attraction to CHILDREN independent of sexual attraction to peers, could be seen as a separate class.
And I am not disagreeing with you that homosexuality is outside of the norm. However, so are certain ethnic backgrounds. We treat them as normal human beings, however. Interesting how that works, right? Albinos are genetic abnormalities, too. Hermaphrodites are genetic abnormalities. So while you're sitting here attacking individuals who behave as normal human beings simply because the 'sex of the individuals they love is not like the others' you should keep in mind that there're plenty of genetic abnormalities that, according to you, deserve your scorn.
A pedophile's behavior isn't really normal. Cisgendered heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgendered hetero/homo/bisexuals all are attracted to their peers depending on their sexual orientation. Pedophiles are not. This is basic science.
"You can't fool mother nature."
- Which is why there are over 1500 observed cases in "nature," right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Spin all you want, but normal people don't buy into the perv program. Pervs will always be deviants and deviant will always be nasty. The homo perversion is like a turd. Sugar coating the deviant crap does not make it candy. Can any of you @zzwipe homo promoting freaks explain to me how you can pick up a greasy turd by the clean end? Do your poor embarrassed mothers approve of your gay games? Why are you so interested in promoting deviant practices? Homo promoters are domestic terrorists bent on destroying society by brainwashing the weak minded and liberals into believing that perversions are normal or acceptable. They obviously are sociopathic deviants attempting to destroy the family unit, which is the basis for civilization. Perversion can never be acceptable. You can pick up that greasy turd, paint it and polish it, but it's still just a smelly, rancid TURD.
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:)
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