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- From: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Message-ID: <3649.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 12:10:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
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- DIM> [Entertaining sig deleted]
- True.... :)
- > Ignoring your sarcasm, any suggestions on how to change this stereotype,
- > without giving rise to other, possibly more damaging stereotypes?
- > I will agree, this bias is just as annoying and damaging as the
- > assumption that homosexuals have to act differently compared to
- > heterosexuals.
- The "assumption" that homosexuals act different from heterosexuals is
- another sweeping generalization typically a cause for the rise of the
- problems of discourse on the board recently. But the fact remains that
- a pretty serious percentage of homosexuals *do* act quite strangely (by
- majority standards, sexual practices aside). My SO's male friends are,
- except for 4 exceptions, homosexuals. It's just a side effect of her
- profession, *THEY* say (not she says). Of this group of 40 or more gay
- men, there are *maybe* 10 that act within the confines of normal society
- enough for me (and many of *MY* friends) to interact with comfortably. The
- majority are the flaming queen stereotypes that have given homosexual men
- such a bad rap and Eddie Murphy and Andrew Clay so much gay-bashing material.
- I knew some of these men before they came out, and some even WHEN they came
- out, and the changes (literally overnight) were astounding. I am now, and
- have been for the last 13 years, a ballet dancer. They number of gay mne in
- dance is disproportionate, regardless of what my instructors say. And the
- mix for the men I've danced with (aforementioned behavioral differences) is
- about the same.
- I believe that to make sweeping generalizations is something of a sin, but
- to ignore or refute standing evidence to the contrary is equally strange.
-
- Also, why does this thread continue in a group about a sci-fi genre'?
- :)
-
- Later
- Mykel
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