I agree entirely with the author.

I couldn't find a TV channel that didn't have gushing commentators trying to outdo each other to show off their compassion, understanding and fulsome agreement that Thorpey did some wonderful thing possibly equivalent to curing cancer or just solving Middle East peace.

Not one had doubts. Now that's when we mere mortals sit up and pay attention. If all the commentators on all the stations all agree on something - run for your lives. They HAVE to be up themselves. They HAVE to be commentating to impress their fellow commentators and not engaging their brains to their primary role, which is not to appear perfectly in tune with the latest PC directive from lefty central, but to reflect a wider perspective, dare I say, from those distant places real people live.

I wish more people could see it the way me and my friends do.
Which is basically who gives a .... It is a non story. Pointless. No one cares.
So what if he is gay! So what if he is straight!
What business is it of anyones?

In what way does that define him and his life?
I thought he was a swimmer. A bloody good one too.
Thats what I will remember him for. Not that he was gay or a hero for coming out or any of that garbage.

LGBTIQA+ activists don't represent homosexual people, they're just another demented shade of internet bigot, they have invented a word for us "Cisgendered" and they've created the "oppression' narrative out of whole cloth:
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140316044801/s4s/images/0/0a/Die-cis-scum.jpg
How retarded are LGBTIQA+ activists?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMu2seXrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1gortW-Zs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXAY7h0cYk
The answer to every one of the questions put forward in those videos is "We didn't ask and we don't care"

It's a long time since I studied medicine or Anatomy; but when I did, I discovered we humans have three brains.
The first being a reptilian brain, overlaid with a mammalian brain, and covering that, the cerebral cortex.
The reptilian brain, referred to in the Latin as the Ganglia Obligarto, control all the automatic, autonomous responses.
Things like flight or fight and appetite, sexual attraction, preferences and arousal!
You don't think about arousal, it just happens when your receive the right signals.
For we men it is erotica; for women, it's being caressed, held, with all the erogenous zones being introduced to tactile stimulation.
There are just four centres in the back, lower half of the Ganglia Obligarto, that control all these functions, with the sex drive often being more powerful than the survival instinct.
Two of these centres are allocated to normal female responses, two others, to normal male responses.
We all of us start life in the womb as female fetuses.
Those of us destined to be male, are at the mercy of the female incubator, and her hormone reaction/supplies.
Sometimes nature doesn't quite complete the conversion, other times, for reasons not yet known, can go a little too far!
So males can be born with normal female sexuality, or orientation, or females, who have normal for some males, reactions and or attractions.
Sometimes in bisexual people, all four centres can be engaged full or part time, and there is some literature, that strongly suggests, very precisely burning out the inappropriately firing control centres, is capable of reversing inappropriate orientation!
Showing pictures or stimulating arousal, then running an electrical current through the entire brain, is some sort of "Dr Mengals", hair-brained/abysmally ignorant attempt, to use aversion techniques that may say work with Addiction, have all been dismal failures, and nothing like the very precise burning out of inappropriately firing control centres. {Yet some of these so called Doctors, still have a licence to practice!?]
None of the is this inappropriate arousal is a matter of choice, just what for the subject, is normal human arousal!
Rhrosty.

Dear Rhrosty,

Your post was interesting. I looked up cerebral cortex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_cortex contains:

"The cerebral cortex is derived from the pallium, a layered structure found in the forebrain of all vertebrates. The basic form of the pallium is a cylindrical layer enclosing fluid-filled ventricles. Around the circumference of the cylinder are four zones, the dorsal pallium, medial pallium, ventral pallium, and lateral pallium, which are thought respectively to give rise to the neocortex, hippocampus, amygdala, and olfactory cortex.

Until recently no counterpart to the cerebral cortex had been recognized in invertebrates. However, a study published in the journal Cell in 2010, based on gene expression profiles, reported strong affinities between the cerebral cortex and the mushroom bodies of ragworms.[31] Mushroom bodies are structures in the brains of many types of worms and arthropods that are known to play important roles in learning and memory; the genetic evidence indicates a common evolutionary origin, and therefore indicates that the origins of the earliest precursors of the cerebral cortex date back to the early Precambrian era."

Apparently the cerebral cortex is not restricted to humans or even vertebrates.

What business is it of anyones?
mikk,
exactly, so why do THEY throw it into our faces at every given opportunity. We're not homophobic as such, we're getting sick & tired of having to constantly listen to their crap, no pun intended. Why can't they just go about their daily life & be done with it ? I can make it through my day without forcing everyone to take notice of my heterosexuality ?