That's definitely a good thing but I'm amazed that's the case.O’Callaghan can’t recall a single time during his six NFL seasons that he heard someone use a gay slur.
People - especially those whose world view is largely dictated by superstition and rigidity - are fucking idiots.Awesome read. I really will never understand how people can hear stories like O'Callaghan's and still believe this is a choice. Why on Earth would anyone choose such misery?
At first I thought you meant pro-athletes...People - especially those whose world view is largely dictated by superstition and rigidity - are fucking idiots.
How?I'm beyond happy that this is all working out well for him and that he pulled himself together... along with the support from Pioli and lack of any gay-bashing in the locker rooms. My younger step-brother, who is gay... actually called this out way back in 2007 when he was watching a game with me by just watching him on the sideline.
I have no idea. I've asked and the only answers (from gay friends and my brother) have always been, "fucking duh! Are you clueless"!?!?!How?
Genuinely curious.
Awesome read. I really will never understand how people can hear stories like O'Callaghan's and still believe this is a choice. Why on Earth would anyone choose such misery?
Amazing story, thanks for posting this. My wife's extended family is dealing with a family member who is gay and trying to come out, but facing extreme amounts of resistance from her very religious parents. They (her parents, my wife's aunt and uncle) are insistent that this is "just a phase" and won't accept what she's trying to tell them about herself. It is heartbreaking to watch this young woman struggle with this, and to see the anxiety and anguish she is dealing with by just trying to tell her parents who she is. I forwarded this story along to my wife for her to share with them, I'm not sure it will help or not, but I don't know how you can read a story like this and not feel awful for what O'Callaghan went through, or that anyone would want their own children to go through something similar.
And, yeah, Pioli is awesome.
I disagree. It sounds like the meeting (and buildup to the meeting) was intense. NOT that O'Callaghan came out, but that Pioli was concerned about what O'Callaghan was going to tell him (especially with his knowledge of O'Callaghan's drug abuse problems).After reading the article, Pioli's response to O'Callaghan, and using common sense, I don't believe the intensity of that period has anything to do with O'Callaghan.