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In fairness, being agnostic, I find anyone saying that the other side is Definitely Wrong to be pretty off-the-mark in these kind of discussions, but here goes: It's kind of not in perfect synergy and order. I mean, we are all heading toward the heat death of the universe at some point in time...

As a kid, I used to refer to them as "horse doovers", having only ever read the word

Lee Atwater was a Republican strategist who outlined this very very bluntly. The quote was: "You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*, n*, n*". By 1968, you can't say "n*"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff."

Yeah, agreed. If it's someone who is a bit-part player, they'll be forever defined by it. Kind of like how players who are related to legendary players are defined by that connection (son of Ablett, Nick Riewoldt's cousin) until they prove themselves worthy in their own right first.

You landed a well-dressed Frenchie? It's probably jealousy more than anything else ;)

It's also fair to suggest that, just in doing things like featuring literature that happens to involve LGBT couples, you make life a LOT easier for kids with two dads, for example.

I think that 15 years ago there would have been a lot less support, too. A huge amount has changed since 2007

Roughly 2% to 3% of the male population are considered to be gay or bisexual. There are over 800 current AFL footballers, and obviously far more past players over (let's say), the last 10 years. Hence, in the last 10 years, we've probably seen about 1600 footballers going through the door. If...

Completely agree, but it wasn't discrimination because it was judgement of your chosen course of action rather than judgement of you on the basis of your sexuality.

Some arms of faith, such as specific churches, treat gay people differently in terms of marriage, employment, and describing their relationships as all-round sinful. That's discrimination.

I think the key with any dirty or off-colour joke is that humour is in the eye of the audience. In this example, you can trade banter with each other like that because your buddy knows that you're sufficiently filthy-minded for such a line, and you know that he's not really cracking onto you...

There's something like 600-plus footballers in the AFL, of course some will be gay. It says something about hte environment that none of them are out in a public sense.

The context of my comment about treating people the same was made in a retort to someone saying that we shouldn't teach kids about same-sex relationships till roughly middle school.

Bluntly put, one of the fundamental tenets of modern, democratic Australia is (or, at least, should be) that people are treated the same regardless of their sexuality, their gender, their race and who they worship. IMO whatever treatment we give straight relationships, we should also give to...

No. Trans legitimacy debates always, always become a dumpster fire on the internet and it's not relevant to what we were discussing.

Completely agree, and the same goes for educational outcomes for boys/men too. We are starting to do it with things like Movember and men's sheds, but there's a way to go yet.

Christians. Despite the fact that they eat shellfish, gasp shock horror

Completely agree that we could do a lot better in men’s health, but that has a lot to do with men having a larger appetite for risk, and our genetics being a little inferior.

I completely disagree. It's important to discuss sexuality in a way that is age-appropriate. We do it already with heterosexuality in many ways - look at the Disney canon for example. From Beauty and the Beast to Cinderella to Pocahontas, we teach about straight romance pretty much from the...

Why not both? But a Movember tie-in would be great

Depends on the opinion. If you and I disagree on, for example, whether churches should be not for profit, or the role of private education in schooling, then I'll respect you just the same. But if you and I disagree on whether same-sex couples should be treated as well as hetero couples, then...

I'm not an authority on the subject - in fact, I'm pretty adamant that I don't know a huge amount about it and I doubt many laypeople do - but I'm of the understanding that delayed transition can be hugely dehabilitating for those who get it. I completely get the argument that we aren't the...

I think it would be both. You would definitely get held up as a community leader and ambassador. The club and most of your teammates would protect you. However, there will also be a lot of blowback. Without a shadow of a doubt, your social media accounts will be filled with hate. You'll have...

To a certain degree, they do force it IMO. MLK is now remembered in a rather sanitised manner with having dreams about little white boys and girls playing together. In the 60s, he pushed a lot of messages that a lot of people didn't want to hear, hard.

I assume you're talking about kids with gender dysphoria starting transition before the age of 18? The problem is that puberty doesn't wait for age of adulthood, by definition - so puberty blockers and the like can delay it, but it's far from perfect. Furthermore, early intervention is shown to...

This is the issue IMO. I am not LGBT, so I don't have a dog in the fight, but I suspect it would give an enormous amount of airtime to a number of people who are deeply uncomfortable with same-sex attraction and object to LGBT people having the same privileges in society as anyone else. A lot...

What can I say, it's always great to have a little bit of hands-on me time ;)

Well, frankly I wouldn't be here without it...

I wouldn't use the term "lifestyle choice" any more than I would use the term "lifestyle choice" to describe, say, purchasing a condom. Abortion in itself is a deeply personal and difficult choice for anyone and the term "lifestyle choice" is far too flippant for it, anyway.

Because (a) the word "lifestyle" is far too flippant for an experience that a lot of people who go through it find to be really traumatic, and most of all (b) it's not a lifestyle or a lifestyle choice. Working from home is a lifestyle choice. Being monogamous is a lifestyle choice. Not having...