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- From: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: the purpose of soc.motss (was: off-topic discussions)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.033112.1805@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:31:12 GMT
- References: <Bxrt9E.87G@queernet.org>
- Sender: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
- Reply-To: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
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- > In article <1992Nov10.174049.26088@Princeton.EDU>,
- spencer@shine.Princeton.EDU
- > (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- |> 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?"
-
- Of course. It is obvious that you are not white, so you don't have to say
- it.
-
- Oh, how I wish that my queerness were as obvious as skin color! Consider
- yourself lucky that you don't *have* to mention offhand that you are not
- white. One of the most annoying things about being gay for me right now is
- that I *do* have to tell people, for the simple reason that it is
- impossible to have a meaningful conversation without revealing that fact.
- When I do, it immediately becomes an issue unto itself. Casual phrases,
- like "my lover" in a context that indicates the gender instantly change
- the direction of any conversation.
-
- It would all be so much easier if all gays and lesbians were simply born
- with purple skin.
-
- By the way, that was a really dense posting.
-
- -Anthony
-