The rainbow is actually a symbol of diversity - and represents straight people as well as gay, bi, trans etc.so it is perfect. Every athlete wears a rainbow uniform in a show of unity and solidarity with this fundamental right to love whom you want to love. So I propose we do the same thing with Olympic games. The Danish solution? Every person in the country put on an Jewish armband. They ordered all of the Jews in the country to wear an armband with a star of David on it so that could easily be identified and persecuted.
You see, during world war 2 Germany conquered Denmark and decided to take up certain unpopular policies against the Danish Jews. So how do we overcome this problem? I refer back to my personal historical roots in Denmark for the answer - and the source of this is my grandparents so I'm not so sure how widely known it is. If you are interested in protecting and helping gays.this won't do. Having the gay athletes show up and potentially be arrested for defying Russian law is also insane and directly harms gay people by.throwing them in jail and at the mercy of the Russian penal system - which I picture as merciful as a mousetrap is to a mouse. So from a practical perspective, I also hate this solution. It would be extremely expensive and be effectively throwing away any of the work already undertaken at great expense in Russia.
Moving the games to another country is a complete logistical nightmare. So boycotting the game is the worst option for athletes and since this is ultimately about athletic competition - it is not a viable solution. Additionally, victories and gold medals are cheapened for any athletes that do not boycott the game. Removing this chance for them is completely unfair to the athletes. An athlete has trained for years for this competition and typically only has 1 or 2 chances in a lifetime to compete.
I like none of these options.īoycotting the games does little to affect any laws or attitudes in Russia. The actions commonly being proposed to deal with the anti-gay laws in Russia are 1) boycott the games 2) move the Olympics to another country 3) have gay athletes protest at the games and see if they are arrested. And remember, the Olympics is a sporting event and not a platform for pursing political agendas and bullying other countries to conform to your own moral ethics. So.let's get off our moral high horse and try to encourage change without indignation. But let's keep this in context: 20 years ago laws like this were common in North America and so were the accompanying attitudes.
They are probably only against hair overweight men having sex with other hairy overweight men (and perhaps some, stretching this a bit again, are also against cute fit boys having sex with other cute fit boys.) But the way I see it, people should be free to love whom they want and it's wrong to attempt to suppress this. If they are truly being loved then their wishes and desires will also be respected.) I find it hard to believe that the Russian Parliament is dead set against girls being with other girls and threesomes.so in my mind they really have not thought this through. (Ok, being a stalker and forcing yourself and your love on someone else isn't - but loving them from afar is still cool. People loving people is pretty much always good. It matters not in the slightest the form of the physical shape of these people. Personally, I feel that if any person chooses to love any other person and everyone is consenting, this is a goodness and should be encouraged. So I am going to put for my solution that has historical roots. There have been several actions proposed to deal with this but I don't like any of them. I feel strongly about this issue but it needs to be addressed without moral righteousness. There has been a lot of discussion in the media lately about the Olympic games being held in Russia and yet it recently passed some rather Draconian laws that target gay people and even people supporting the rights of gay people. I know this post won't end up being about BDSM at all but it's about, sexuality and I wish to express my view on this.