Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the letter “Feelings between men should never be hateful,” published in the Aug. 29 issue of the Daily Lobo. In the letter, Don Schrader shares his vision of ideal male relationships.
Open letter to Don Schrader:
You and I have known each other many years. Though I’m not gay, I have supported gay rights and have, in letters to local newspapers, praised your knowledge and stance on various nutrition and sociopolitical issues, once even likening you to Mahatma Gandhi.
However, your increasingly frequent self-absorbed comments on “hot sex,” etc., not only display a form of the very competition among males (your vigorous daily exercises to better compete in sexual attractiveness) that your latest letter condemns, but also, and mainly, seriously detract from the greater good you do, too often coming across primarily as myopic nutcase rants and even thinly veiled sex-recruitment ads.
Please, Don, wake up to your more important societal value. You’re needlessly harming your greater legacy.
Kent Ponder
Daily Lobo reader
