nobody "in our society" shares private spaces unless they choose to do so. bunking gay males with other males is indeed the same sexually as forcing young females to bunk with males.
Really? So men don't share bathrooms with other men anywhere? Women don't share locker rooms with other women anywhere?
And, btw, the military is a part of society. Everyone in the military today chose to be in. They volunteer to serve with everyone else in the military, which means putting aside their own comforts and personal fears to do their job. Even under DADT, they would still be sharing those same living/getting naked spaces with gays, whether they know they are there or not.
It isn't required that anyone actually use a public locker room or a public restroom, but it is required that if they do, they cannot prevent other people of the same sex from coming into that space. And they don't have any control over what sexuality those people of the same sex are.
then it was a foolish one - as it contradicted your chief argument on this thread (that ease and comfort with each other does not effect teamwork - as everyone knows, humans are actually robots), and as it continued to fail to address the point.
Some people need to grow a sense of humor.
For one thing, my joke pointed out that there are other issues involved with men and women not sharing living spaces. The principal thing is our own society's views on it. In fact, it is against some people's religion to share such spaces with members of the opposite sex they are not married or related to, Mormons for example.
Can you name a religion where it would be some sin or violation to share spaces with people of a different sexuality than you? Some scriptural support to back this up would be good.
And, no, believing that they are committing sin does not count because then it would have to stand to reason that you could not share a space with anyone who committed a sin.
gosh, that almost sounds like an argument for DADT.
The difference being that it is a lot more likely to cause issues, including pregnancy, which would not be an issue with gays living with straights of the same sex, if you have men and women living together, especially in the numbers of potential partners based off their sexuality than having men of different sexualities living together.
Spouses are another issue with this. If you talk to most spouses, they are much more concerned with their husbands/wives living with a member of the opposite sex than they are with them living with someone who is gay because there is the chance of a mutual attraction.
On top of this, I could care less if the military ordered tomorrow that men and women would have to share berthing spaces, even if I got deployed, because I know I can act professionally and anyone who touched me would not only be answering to the Navy but most likely my husband as well. I know it will not happen during my time in the military though because our culture can't even handle men using women's bathrooms when they are crossdressers/transsexuals. As I have said multiple times, I have changed in front of men while in the military. It wasn't a big deal. I have showed my breasts (by accident, when they fell out of my bathing suit doing my PFA) to men in the military. It was embarassing, but it wasn't exactly something to get worked up over. And I have had women who couldn't handle another woman being naked in front of them (some of those older ladies at the gym really are funny when they look so disgusted that someone in a locker room is getting naked in front of them to put on a bathing suit or even just to change into gym clothes). My mother taught me that the human body is just a body. Everyone has one.