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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: Marky Mark and Calvin Klein (was Re: Scott Masden)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.172253.29546@spdcc.com>
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- References: <74296@apple.apple.COM> <1992Nov15.040728.10571@spdcc.com> <1992Nov15.071423.22916@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:22:53 GMT
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- omt1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) >writes:
- >>richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel) >writes:
-
- >>I think it's possible to read George's statement as being without any
- >>racist intent, nor do I think that George has a racist hair on his
- >>body. This what-his-name is simply a media creation exploiting a
- >>legitimate art for by co-opting it for the white masses, or in other
- >>words, doing just what he used to do as a member of NKOTB.
- >
- >For the nth time, Marky Mark was never a member of NKOTB. In this
- >month's issue of _The Face_ (a British periodical, but available
- >in some parts of the US), he gives a revealing (pardon a *smirk*)
- >interview about just these issues. Here are some snippets:
-
-
- >"Marky Mark hasn't seen the Gap ads yet [nor have I...anyone?],
- >but if he'd been near Hyde Park in London last August, he might
- >have wondered why the biggest cheer on the Lesbian and Gay Pride
- >march was for a passing double decker bus.
-
- >"'That's dope, man! I particularly like pussy, but everybody's
-
- Ooooh - so BUTCH - I wonder how womyn feel about this
- categorization...
-
- >got their sexual preference. A lot of deep people [rappers] don't
- >feel it's God's will, but that doesn't bother me and people
- >really do have the right to do what they want.
-
- >And if they're
- >into me, then cool, as long as they don't try to offend me and
- >are into my music.
-
- Translation - I support queers if they give my $$$. Oh, joy.
-
- >I know a lot of gay people and I respect them,
- >and you don't have to worry about getting stuck up by a gay dude.
- >Yo, if you're gay you're in the house, just don't do that shit
- >around me! Don't try to fuck me!...
-
- THIS is *SUPPORT*?
-
- >I respect people, everybody
- >who's doing their own thing, as long as they're not harming
- >anybody else doing it."
-
- Yeah, right, Marky. BIG E_SWOON! Anything you say.
-
- Someday, SOMEDAY we might grow up enough to choose
- our idols with our heads instead of our balls. That will
- make the choice doubly-sweet if said choice is also *HOT* by our
- own "standards of objectifyable excellence".
-
- BBC
-
- "I think I'm gonna puke." --- Steve Dyer
-