Cindy McCain Appears In Pro-Same Sex Marriage Ads

Separate bathrooms and showers are a joke. Seriously – why can’t we get past this fear/privacy issue by dropping it for EVERYONE in the military – lets totally desegregate? Gender segregation and their privacy arguments are a hetero-male religious pretense that has been used to discriminate against minorities throughout our history – especially women and African Americans. And it is still being used – most recently to bar LGBT people from the military and women from serving on subs most recently. Are sci-fi depictions of unisex quarters like in Starship Troopers that farfetched? People routinely adjust their modesty in certain situations of undress such as the locker room, doctors/gyno office, nude beach, nudist camp, sauna/bath house, etc… without going crazy and attacking each other. Let’s face it, if someone is going to attack someone or have consensual sex then a shower curtain, door, or wall isn’t going to stop them. Seeing each other naked or living together in the barracks isn’t going to promote sex anymore than nature does now. In fact, it might deter sex some – taking away all the allure and fascination between the different sexes? Seeing someone relieve themselves is pretty humanizing and a buzz kill. As such it might improve overall relations by removing everyone’s outer shell and showing them for their true humanity. That and nobody is really looking in the shower anyway. Most people use techniques to avoid looking and embarrassing each other. Plus the showers and barracks are just a place to get clean and sleep – not get it on. It is simply business in the military. Culture is changing. Look at the gender-neutral dorms and restrooms popping up all over the U.S. Again – if they are going to have sex, they will. The military could lead the way on this issue. We don’t give our professional warriors enough credit to handle this. We are talking about warriors who aren’t afraid to sacrifice the life and limb for our country – surely seeing each other naked won’t destroy them. Plus they knowingly give up privacy as a part of service. Dropping all privacy issues will not be that big a problem- in fact many are force to expose themselves in combat and the attitude is “let em look – I’m more worried about getting killed.”. Once ordered unisex will save on time and expense of dividing people up. Isn’t dividing people up bad for cohesion too? Why worry about social norms of modesty and morality and the opinion polls that reflect them – they are all pretenses designed to keep people in under the thumb of the religion and government by reinforcing archaic gender roles. Children aren’t embarrassed at being nude. We have to teach them it is immoral, dirty, and will lead to sex. All these “morals” or modesty beliefs were really trumped up to actually promote attraction and sex within marriage. Our fascination with clothes in essence is a cultural aphrodisiac. I mean what is the excitement of a strip tease at a nudist camp? Polls just reflect opinion – they don’t tell you how people will truly react. Everyone predicted chaos would ensue when foreign militaries put homosexuals and heteros in the same showers and there have been no problems. Couldn’t strong leadership, training, discipline, code of conduct, punishment of misconduct make unisex a reality? I love some serious feedback cause I think the military can drop this pretense all together.

I think that message would fade over time if all things are otherwise equal. People would just come to accept the difference just as they will come to accept homosexuality in the mainstream. Why not have the word marriage apply to both – comes down to the established definition of marriage as a union of a man and a women. If granted equal rights, the options are change a word’s definition or invent a new word. I’d simply argue invent a new word. The religious right can’t argue with that and LGBT get equal rights. We invent new words from time to time – laser (1960), cyberspace (1984), blog (late 1990s), googling (2003). I’d argue it is harder to change a word’s definition – especially a word with heavy religious overtones.