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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: Re: The reason for Rage
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120733.8852@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 12:07:32 EST
- References: <l6jdivINNgh4@news.bbn.com> <SCG.92Jul22091626@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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- In article <SCG.92Jul22091626@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring) writes:
- >
- >
- >>His ranting was that I was homophobic.
- >
- > No, it was that the Austin police were homophobic. Get it straight,
- > idjit.
-
- Well, both I and others read it as insinuating I was homophobic. Perhaps
- we read it correctly as written, and the author wrote it poorly.
- >
- >>(A nice, politically correct word used to slam anyone who does not
- >>care about gay issues. [...])
- >
- > Actually, I implied that you seem to have some problem with being
- > potentially viewed, even if incorrectly, as homosexual. Why?
-
- That statement says quite clearly the way we read your original post
- was, in fact correct.
-
- Why do I not want to be viewed as homosexual? Besides the fact I am not?
- I need a reason???
-
-
- >
- >>As for homosexual rape, that is no different a crime that ordinary
- >>rape.
- >
- > Then why is it handled differently?
-
- Ask you legislature.
-
- >
- >
- >>But, as there is information out there to indicate that a significant
- >>percentage of men who get raped are singled out because they are gay
- >>(right or wrong, that perceotion exists) to be the victim of gay rape
- >>is to start to have people suspect you are gay.
- >
- > Why should I care if people suspect I'm gay? The simple fact is, I'm
- > not gay. The fact that most people are idiots should not (and will
- > not) stand in my way to report a heinous crime against my person.
-
- Yes, but I remember a post about being upset that the police viewed
- the mal/male rape as being 'icky'. Let's face it, homosexuals are
- discriminated against in employment, promotions, friendship, social
- activities, and, in TRYING TO GET WOMEN TO GO OUT WITH THEM!!!
-
- If nothing else, the LAST thing I need is to have women avoid going
- out with me for fear I may have caught AIDS the night before. It really
- ruins the chances for an intimate interlude.
-
-
- >
- >>That is why I would not report it.
- >
- > In other words, you're afraid of being thought of as gay by idiots.
- > Why do you place so much stock in the opinions of idiots?
-
- I do not place much stock in their opinions. As is evident by the fact that
- I do not bother to give a damn about the opinions of people on this board about
- me.
-
- However, let me ask YOU a question. Would you care if I braodcast to your
- employers, co-workers, and friends you'd been bu-fu by another man???
- Or, do the opinions of those who can hire and fire you matter on this.
-
- Further, who the hell do you think you are to say it is any of your business to
- say I should not care what other people think and I should report a grave
- crime??? Would you ever tell a woman that she should ignore all the
- reprecussions and report she had been raped???
-
- She: I'd prefer not to report this. I don't need all the hassle.
-
- You: Buck up! Who cares if people will think you are a cheap slut? A crime has
- been committed! Go report it! Who cares what other idiots think???
-
- You argument kind of looks hollow there, doesn't it?
-
- Further, I do not care what people think about me as long as it is accurate.
- I am arrogent, self-centered, rude, sexually uninhibited, somewhat
- chauvanistic, somewhat prejudiced, and lots of other things. I not only
- admit to all of that, but I don't care who knows any of that. If
- they have a problem with it, it's their problem.
-
- As for having labels placed on me that are untrue, like homo or rapist, I can
- live without.
-
- DC
-
-