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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: "Smear the queer" (was Re: Homosexuals raising children)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.015025.1732@reed.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:50:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov20.015025.1732
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- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- A couple of years ago I was rather active on our Ultimate frisbee
- team. (It's a great game, every bit as serious as soccer only more
- fun). This is here at Reed, bastion of non-conformism and PC. We have
- a small team and we are all friends. I was out to them then.
-
- We were waiting for a game to start, and we had this frisbee, and my
- friend Nicholas says "hey, let's play smear the queer!". He's not
- homophobic - I suspect he was just using the name of a game we all
- played as kids.
-
- Melmon pontificates:
- >Equating ["smear the queeer"] to 'gay-bashing' is silly.
-
- Hearing my friend Nicholas suggest this made my blood run cold. I
- don't like any reminder that we are hunted daily because we're queer -
- hearing a friend suggest this, even jokingly, upset me.
-
- So I did the right thing, looked him in the eye and said "you don't
- really mean that, do you Nicholas", and he was embarassed.
- __
- nelson@reed.edu \/ Homosexuals were invented for an episode of Barney Miller
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