So What!

THE FACT THAT a professional athlete in a major american sport has openly proclaimed that he is homosexual became a public affair of the highest importance, as the nation reacted, mostly by praising said athlete's courage, which might be considered a testament to our modern enlightened society.

He's a ground breaker, a brave soldier in the fight for sexual orientational equality. Also, he is nearly thirty five years old, and currently without a contract to continue playing professionally, so, its possible that, like eisenhower, he timed his shocking revelation to coincide with consequencelessness.

Then again, does this indicate that we have become more enlightened, or that our benighted state has merely assumed new characteristics?

There is somethng surreal about all this. Like, who in the hell cares, or, who in the hell should care, or, why should anyone care? There was a time, not long ago, when one simply did not discuss sex in any way, shape, fashion, or form, for any reason, ever.

Might we live to long for a return that time? Or perhaps long for an evolved version of it, based on acceptance and indifference, rather than denial. WE might hope that there will come a time when nobody cares who, other than ourselves, is gay and who isn't.

Maybe we could get the ball rolling this very moment. Someone is gay? So what!

Until such a time arrives,