Reply #55: Three points.

[noamnety]

1. I do not know a single person besides you who believes that men would be less likely to rape women if the women were forced to shower with men. That solution does not appear to be reality-based.

2. I do not believe there is ANY connection between violence by men against women, and a homophobic-based fear that gay men will begin raping men in the showers if they aren't segregated.

3. Because I do not see any logical connection in your arguments, despite you trying to goad me into it, I am not interested in an in-depth discussion of letting men into the women's showers (supposedly in the name of "women's rights") in the context of a thread about letting gay men serve openly in the military. The connection itself is based on the faulty premise that there is a connection between the the epidemic rapes of women in the military, and letting gays out of the closet in the military. I don't know any instances of gay men becoming rapists because they came out of the closet.