Other - Society & Culture - 16 March 2007

This is a question geared more for the straight members of Yahoo! answers. It has been said that gays can not/should not be in the military. Recently, pro-sports was an area where a lot of people expressed discomfort at the idea of sharing a lockerroom with a gay man. Some people seem uncomfortable with the thought of openly gay teachers, members of law enforcement, ministers, and even nurses, doctors or healthcare providers.
If you do feel some of these situations are inappropriate for gays to serve in please add why. Likewise, if you are OK with it (as a straight person) why doesn't it bother you?

I open this up to SERIOUS discussion only!!!! No stupid answers please.

Thanks for taking the time.

2007-03-16 19:47:24 · 8 answers · asked by Herpman 2

I mean when i tell people that diary is much safer and more personal they disagree...saying its dangerous and very childish.....what do you guess think...i personely think blog is alot more worse.......

2007-03-16 19:38:20 · 4 answers · asked by Jessica P 4

I'm really trying hard not to think that there is a genetic basis for it.

Both groups come here speaking little or no English, with little or no money. Fast forward, and the Asian family have children that graduated top public and private colleges, well on their way to being leaders in the top corridors of power in corporations, non-profits, and government. The Hispanic family meanwhile is still struggling to rise out of the lower-middle-class, watching "Sabado Gigante" on saturday nights, and working as hard laborers, mechanics, and gardeners.
Again, I really hate to think that it's genetic. I'd love to think that its a cultural problem. If so, how can we change it? Why is the janitor in my office here vacuuming as I speak Hispanic, and the investment banker trainee that walked the other way just now oriental? Why have I never seen an oriental janitor, for that matter?

My feeling is only the smartest asians left. The masses remain.
Masses of anything are backward........

2007-03-16 19:37:02 · 14 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

I'm not saying I'm going to hit that, but when I walk around and I see a cute 12 year old I don't think, ewww disgusting. I think she's kind of cute and if I spent some time with her she'd be fun to talk to, play with, cuddle with, and everything else you do with someone you like/date/love/girlfriend.

Of course it's illegal, but it isn't sick because she has all the same features as an older girl. It's not like she's deformed or missing something. She has breasts and probably other womanly parts.

So why are you so mad when I say, Hey, she's cute, I'd like to hold her hand and whisper in her ear, smell her hair and buy her a hamburger. Is it because she'd be so flattered that an "older" guy would like her that she just couldn't resist me and would do whatever I say, while someone her own age she'd tell them no way? Or would she be scared of me and do what I say and I'd be like forcing her even if I wasn't trying to?

Am I supposed to think she's disgusting? If so, why?

2007-03-16 19:35:37 · 9 answers · asked by Banned4life 1

Practically every minority tells me that they are aware of their skin color...but that is because we are in a white dominated society. So white people, are you always aware of your color, or only in the presence of minorities?

2007-03-16 19:22:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm serio.s, tell the truth, don't you like smell or at least rate the smell? tell the truth?

2007-03-16 19:19:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

im naturally tan i was born this way...my skin color is like this:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u121/tania0_2007/Adriana%20Lima/Backstage/0919200513373205.jpg?t=1174112336 (girl on the bottom) how can i make it white?

2007-03-16 19:19:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 19:13:43 · 3 answers · asked by seaofcolour 3

Its my birthday, and this is about the only thing I could find interesting about the date.

2007-03-16 19:04:34 · 4 answers · asked by omnisource 6

China Eygibtion ...what?....

2007-03-16 19:03:59 · 10 answers · asked by ala0799 1

I'm 16, and really tall (6'10) I'm tired of people asking me questions like "Do you play basketball" although I'm going to hear this question for the rest of my life, I was wondering what a good comeback could be to say to that person.

For example:

girl: Wow your tall, do you play basketball?
me: Yeah I play, man your short do you play mini golf?

I need some more of these...thanks!

2007-03-16 19:00:53 · 9 answers · asked by aaron_90280 1

2007-03-16 19:00:25 · 1 answers · asked by diadema f 1

2007-03-16 18:59:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 18:59:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

All of these hip-hop themed movies, shows, and etc. seem to not get the point that Hip-Hop and the urban culture is no longer the "in" thing. Newsflash: You have been replaced. Replaced by emo, but replaced nonetheless. Just get over it already. Hip-hop is gasping for its last breaths of air, and it needs to just give up and die.

2007-03-16 18:55:30 · 7 answers · asked by Odysseus J 3

I would curse him or her out. Whoever does that is a sick twisted freak with mental issues. It's like when r the men in white gonna come and take u over to the happy hotel? If u do that u have no life at all and deserve to eat dog s**t. I hate you no life. Your a loser!!!!!!!!!! GET A LIFE!!!

2007-03-16 18:52:09 · 3 answers · asked by yasminbelkhyr 1

is there another way to say: I love black men? because some people think its wrong to say that
im not white, but im not black either so i sound weird saying that, not that i care...because i dont think thers anything wrong with calling black people black just like there isnt calling white people white but some people (especially whites) think im being racist when i say black people are hot it makes no sense
i think the white people that say that are racists because their basically saying calling someone black is wrong because its ugly...thats the vibe i get from them
if ya know what im sayin

2007-03-16 18:44:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are some children out there that are committing some truly horrendous crimes, the types that would send an adult away for 15-20. Why is it, that a child will go to prison until they are 18 then be released, with their record sealed. Doesn't the fact that they are children make it all the more worse?

2007-03-16 18:34:14 · 5 answers · asked by Sarcasma 5

anything that doesn't imply that she's ugly or that the guy is gay

2007-03-16 18:29:30 · 6 answers · asked by Rock 4

2007-03-16 18:25:26 · 4 answers · asked by rene k 2

I guess I'm not the only person without a life...lol

2007-03-16 18:21:17 · 6 answers · asked by Bark at the Moon 6

2007-03-16 18:20:33 · 8 answers · asked by A marine 2

2007-03-16 18:19:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been talking with my 12 year old son about various things... and well up comes the question "mom, why is marijuana illegal, but alcohol is not?" I gave the good mom answers.... and we looked up facts on both alcohol and marijuana... but I could not give him an answer that made sense.... it seemed silly trying to justify the legality of alcohol, and the illegality of a natural product? Curious about the thoughts of others....

2007-03-16 18:16:51 · 13 answers · asked by JustJen 5

When you have someone behind honking angrily and your car cannot move. What are some "peaceful" ways to move on and recompose thoughts back on the road?

Yeah, I am already seeing a therapist for other issues.

2007-03-16 18:10:35 · 1 answers · asked by ,,G'' 2

I can't understand this trend now putting whorish women on some sort of pedestile, while decent women are treated badly by some of these men. Maybe a man can explain it--i don't get it.

2007-03-16 18:08:04 · 7 answers · asked by teresa_a_emerson 1

To fall in love and be rejected or never fall in love at all.

2007-03-16 18:07:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 18:05:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 18:01:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some people argue that everything is relative and no single law can be applied universally. What do YOU say?

2007-03-16 17:53:24 · 2 answers · asked by ZORRO 3