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- From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
- Subject: Re: Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <michaelh.722077407@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <michaelh.721908229@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov16.163852.19134@spdcc.com> <michaelh.721963181@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <17035@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 09:03:27 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
-
- >Since anti-bear postings are a reasonable response to
- >'over-representation', could you tell us the correct
- >amount of representation please so that we could avoid
- >future unpleasantness? A list of bear topics and
- >affectations would be useful too, just to avoid confusion.
-
- my posting said *perceived* over-representation and the main point
- that i was making was about the *form* of GDM's postings. *i* know
- that he is not speaking for all bears, but i was hypothesizing that
- sometimes that concept is lost and other bears have to bear the brunt
- of any offense people take (no pun intended:-)
-
- i don't think that there's anything wrong with people expressing their
- preferences in partners (smooth or hairy, butch or femme, ...). i do
- think that criticism is deserved if someone goes beyond "this is my
- preference..." to "this is the only real preference..."
-
- >[...] But excuse me
- >if I care not to minimize bear visibility to the point
- >of invisibility. I don't care to underestimate the
- >potential increase in self-esteem of the reader who, not
- >looking like Marky Mark or Jason Priestly, discovers that
- >there are men who appreciate a mature figure and hirsute
- >aspect.
-
- maybe i should have been clearer, but i think that this is important,
- too. i think that it's too bad that a lot of the bear traffic has
- gone to the bear mailing list. but, i don't think that asking people
- to respect other people's tastes the same way that they would like
- theirs to be respected is an unreasonable thing. most people seem to
- be pretty good about this on motss.
-
- --mike
-