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- From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
- Subject: Re: SEX
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:44:05 GMT
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- In article <Bs225t.LI5@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve "edified" Franklin) writes:
- >This is ridiculous. I am afraid that I no longer can sit passively during
- >this thread. Homophobia is an IRRATIONAL response to homosexuals and
- >their practices. It is NOT irrational to be disgusted by the concept of two
- >(wo)men having sex. Although one should tolerate and leave alone such men and
- >women, they should never be forced to accept, practice, or condone it.
-
- On the contrary, it is extremely irrational to be disgusted merely by the idea
- of what two sane, healthy, consenting adults may choose to do in the privacy of
- their own homes. You call this feeling "disgust" because you can't even admit
- to what it really is - fear (that's what "phobia" means) - fear of the different.
- The fear of homosexuals is not a natural fear - it is a conditioned response.
- Society teaches you to seek out a herd of your own kind, and to fear those who
- are different - homosexuals, blacks, jews, vagrants, . . . .
-
- It is more understandable, although still irrational, to be afraid that a
- homosexual may make advances to you. Again, this is a conditioned response
- instilled by the teachings of society, which says that it is O.K. for a man
- to walk up to a strange woman and make sexual advances, but any other pairing
- is in some way deviant. It has been my experience that the technique used
- by women to fend of undesired advances works just as well - just say "No".
- In fact it works rather better - I can't recall hearing of too many cases
- where a male was raped because an overly-agressive homosexual took "No" to
- mean "Yes, but I have to say No because society expects it of me".
-
- Personally, I would rather hang around with homosexuals than with people
- who believe that they are doing homosexuals a favour by "tolerating" them.
- --
- John Francis johnf@apollo.hp.com
- The world can be divided into two classes :-
- those who divide people into two classes, and those who don't.
-