“It may not be a legit study, but I work with college students — so people of military age — and they are exceedingly unfazed by people’s sexual orientation,”
Your personal experience with college students is very disconnected from soldiers lives and attitudes. To even try to compare them shows a great disrespect for our nations finest men and women. I’d bet you are a female and made this statement based purely on emotions. If you really agree with this study, would you be uncomfortable if I joined you in the shower?
Perhaps before you start saying I am disrespectful and commenting based on emotion, you should look at post 122, from a current military member who agrees with me.
In addition, your point about "you joining me in the shower" is inapposite. In that situation, assuming you are a male, and as I am a heterosexual female, there could be the problem of mutual attraction. The accurate comparison would be whether I would be hesitant to shower in an open bay with a lesbian, and I assure you I would not be as I've been in that situation. People on this board assume that homosexuals are so hypersexualized that they're drooling after folks who aren't interested in them and let me tell you, for the vast majority,it's just not true. You're believing what (1) you see in the media {which is hilarious on this board) and (2) what you're allowed to read on this board.
Amazing how when I post under "Cammie" I get all sorts of knee-jerk reactions about being a female, but several years ago, before a computer and e-mail addy change lost all my password info, I posted under a gender neutral name. Back then, no one alleged that I was emotional. Quite humorous.