Re: Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation

"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Griessel) wrote:

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:It's always been my belief (unsupported by anything other than
:personal observation) that those over-sensitive hyper masculine types
:are worried about their own sexual orientation - perhaps a few
:stirrings of latent homosexuality have them really worried. The more
:heterosexual people tend to be the less homosexuality seems to perturb
:them.
:

I've never understood how people arrive at that conclusion.

Not sure I buy into the argument that Eugene is setting out...I've heard it
often enough, though. While there is some truth to it, I think it's equally
as possible that many guys with no particular yearnings for hairy man ***
simply aren't comfortable being the object of male desire.


Imagine the reaction of a bunch of heterosexual women to the idea that
one or two men who are sexually interested in them have secretly been
living among them, watching them in the shower, etc...

Why should a bunch of men greet essentially the same prospect with
equanimity?

Some guys will, some won't. I spent six years in a communal environment, 4
of them in squadbays...we actually welcomed going out on ops or on floats
because we got more privacy that way - it's pretty pathetic when you get
more privacy aboard ship.

Out of a hundred or so Marines in a battery, even with the gay screening of
the '70's and '80's, you have to figure that a few Marines and sailors
leaned the other way, and in fact most of the time we knew who they were.
Can't recall that anyone ever got harassed, and although there were a few
characters who were homophobic, we kept them under control the same way we
kept the overt racists under control.

Granted, you sort of hoped that nobody would sport a random erection in the
communal showers... :-)

AHS


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