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- From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
- Subject: Re: Homosexuals raising children
- Message-ID: <michaelh.722199500@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:58:20 GMT
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- mdrayton@sr.hp.com (Mike Drayton) writes:
-
- >Yeah, I imagine so. I haven't heard things like "that's so gay" in
- >person when I'm around kids that age, but I heard this morning that
- >they have a game called "smear the queer", in which they pick on
- >one kid to jump on and lightly rough up. Early training for gay-
- >bashing, I guess. It looks like they learn the words and negative
- >associations first, and learn the adult meanings (I was going to
- >write, "lexical meanings") later.
-
- i was going to mention "smear the queer" in a posting about word usage
- a couple days ago, but i wasn't sure how universal this game was (and
- didn't really have enough time to do a decent posting, anyway). i
- don't think that many young kids who play smear the queer really know
- or think twice about what the name means, so maybe it instills a
- homophobia of ignorance where they mean no harm, but their words can
- be hurtful to someone to whom they apply. i was glad when i got older
- and heard that other people played the same game but called it "kill
- the pill" or "the last piece of meat in the world."
-
- --mike
-
-