Hektore

*prepares to be crucified*

I'm going to have to agree with the jury on this one here, please don't write me off as an idiot just yet. Having just finished my round of high school football, playing a year in college and then moving to rugby I can tell you with certainty this is a common occurrence. Very similar things have happened to me, hell everything that boy said happened to him has happened to me and just about all my other teammates. I don't think the issue is so much about domination, control or bullying as it is about just trying to make your buddies say "Dude, what the fuck?".

Basically its about pushing boundaries, seeing what you can get away with in front of your friends. The easiest way to push that boundary is to simulate homosexual activity because, as accepting as we pretend to be, in the guy's locker room this is very much off limits. If anyone were to actually admit to being homosexual in any given high school football team's locker room I would feel very sorry for that person. That being said, this is a sort of a norm for pushing the envelope(I'm NOT saying it's ok for this to be the norm just that it is.) in any way, especially among sports so blantanly 'macho' oriented.

Being that this was a freshman he may have been unaware of this type of behavior and the offender being a senior he may have thought this acceptable behavior, as did the other players who witnessed the event. So, no I don't think he should be marched down the Pen to be Bubba's bitch, but he needs to be told that this is not okay, even if it may seem that way to most people, then proceed from there. I'm sorry for the kid who feels victimized but sometimes you just have to grow a tough skin and move on.

Now you can call me an idiot.

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