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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!dyer
- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: bear vs. twink
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.180003.1835@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <14728.2b0b3de6@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:00:03 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <14728.2b0b3de6@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> msp@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Pettersen) writes:
- >I am very disturbed by the fact that in all this discussion of bear
- >vs. twink, that no one has presented the viewpoint of those of us who
- >are admirers both of Jacob, who was a smooth man, and Esau, his brother,
- >who was an hairy man. I'm tired of people saying that it's just a phase,
- >that I'm really one or the other, but don't have the courage to come out
- >completely.
- >Really, in a community as diverse as ours, there is no excuse
- >for such insensitivity to minority issues. In fact, since there is so little
- >interest in my kind of issues in soc.motss, when it's not positively hostile,
-
- I think this is pretty facile and insensitive (even if it is a frivolous
- article in response to a somewhat frivolous topic that I can't get too worked
- up over.) The marginalization is not over what type you like, but what type
- you happen to be. Don't forget that.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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