Outsports Says That if Aaron Hernandez Had a Gay Relationship it Wouldn't Make Him Gay
I have yet to weigh in on these reports from the Daily Mail that Aaron Hernandez was having gay sex in prison because I don’t fully know what to make of them. On the one hand, I didn’t care much what he was doing in jail so long as his activities were restricted to “rotting” and “dying.” At the same time, the reports to me seem pretty sketch since they’re so obviously coming from prison officials who are responsible for making sure inmates don’t hang themselves with bedsheets. Believe me, I think Dexter did the galaxy a favor when he snuffed himself. We’re all better off without him breathing our precious oxygen. Nevertheless, someone’s in trouble for the negligence of letting him do it. And I have every confidence this bisexual stuff is an attempt to protect someone’s job, which means we should severely question whether it’s true or not.
What we can’t argue is it’s irrelevant. Ordinarily I’d say that whatever two consenting cell bitches do in the privacy of their prison shower is between them. And my first reaction to the reports was to do what I always do: Quote Shawhank when The Sisters took a liking to Andy:
Andy: I don’t suppose it would help if I told them that I’m not homosexual.
Red: Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don’t qualify.
But if these reports are true, then Hernandez’ bisexuality was his motivation for killing Odin Lloyd and himself, and one of the suicide notes he reportedly left was to his alleged jail boyfriend, Kyle Kennedy. So it matters.
Just not to everyone. Outsports is arguing that it’s none of our business. That we’re way out of line for even asking. Not only that, but they make an argument that I swear I’ve never heard before:
Newsflash: Just because a man has sex with another doesn’t make him gay or bisexual. We each get to define what and who we are sexually, even convicted murderers. … We know that is hard to understand for some, but many men “experiment” briefly with other men.
Some men find circumstances drive them to sex with men. Prison is a particularly fascinating place, where otherwise completely straight men engage in sex, or even relationships, with other men. … Sadly, in our culture, “if you have sex with a dude, man, you’re gay.”
Umm … What? Is this true? I’m going to proceed cautiously here because this is yet another of those 2017 issues filled with peril. Like a booty-trapped tomb I have to carefully navigate Indiana Jones-style so I don’t step on the stone of Hate Speech, setting off the SJW blowgun and take a poison dart of Insensitivity in the neck. But seriously, having gay sex doesn’t make you gay? I confess that up until now, I thought it was the defining characteristic. That all that separates the different sexual orientations is whom you like to get your orgasms from and nothing else is a factor.
And I was fine with that. More power to you. Make yourself happy. Live and let live. I’ll keep liking the body parts I like, and you like the ones you like and let’s all just get along. But now the leading gay sports site tells us you are whatever you say you are. And even being in a steady, committed gay relationship doesn’t make you gay. Not if you feel like you’re hetero. OK. Got it. Thanks for the education. I mean, the social goalposts just moved for me once again, but I’ll just keep trying to keep up. Just don’t tell me Aaron Hernandez’ motives for killing his friend and himself are irrelevant.
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