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- From: rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: the purpose of soc.motss (was: off-topic discussions)
- Message-ID: <Bxrt9E.87G@queernet.org>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 18:41:36 GMT
- References: <1djqkhINNor7@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Nov8.212335.16424@spdcc.com> <1dk6t3INNqiu@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Nov10.174049.26088@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov10.174049.26088@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@shine.Princeton.EDU
- (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- |> I'm not drawing distinctions between gay and not-gay aspects of life. If
- |> you're gay, then you're gay for every second of your life. But that
- |> doesn't mean it's RELEVANT every second of your life.
-
- Really? News to me.
-
- |> I think you can
- |> draw a similar parallel to race here. I happen to be Chinese also, but
- |> I don't feel compelled to draw attention to it while I'm having dinner
- |> with my friends, or discussing music, or bitching about asshole
- |> professors. If I mentioned "Oh by the way, I'm Chinese" into any of
- |> those conversations, they'd look at me funny and say "What's your
- |> point?"
-
- And being Chinese hasn't informed your experience in ways it has not informed
- mine? Bull. One of the things I can say with certainty is that queerness
- affects the way I look at *everything*...
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- "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
- -- J. Foster
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