2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Revealed.

[Warren DeMontague]

676. I'm sure the people who feel they're entitled to tell gay folks not to hold hands, THINK they are

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being disrespected.

Look, I understand, but I don't agree. I don't think sexual attraction, physical appreciation of attractiveness, is inherently wrong, hateful, disrespectful or any of it. Someone can say "I don't like that" and I can say "I hear you" but no, I'm not obligated to agree or to concede that their position is right.

We've had lots of threads that have "offended" lots of people, in fact some of those threads I saw justified inside the thread itself with statements like "it's the very fact that it's offensive to some people that makes the thread necessary", or some such tautological logic. There are plenty of people on DU who think their "friends" here show up solely for the purpose of being lectured, re-educated, or having their moral inventory taken by total strangers who have somehow appointed themselves arbiters.

If your "friends" tell you (I'm not talking specifically about you, just about some posts I've seen) that they find it well-nigh obnoxious when you presume to constantly talk to them like a kindergarten teacher talks to an errant 5 year old, wouldn't you perchance pause to consider your own behavior, especially if scads of different people in all different groups had been telling you for years that it was a problem?

Anyway, there's a hide thread button. If 3 women in bikinis on a beach bother people, they can hide the thread.

a picture of 3 women on a beach DOESN'T bother me, and a picture of 3 attractive men wouldn't bother me, even if those 3 men had far better abs and 6 packs than me.

I respect that some people don't like it, and I also realize that nothing -not a single thing- is forcing them to come into the thread. It's been kicked more times by people mentioning how much they hate it, than by anyone else.