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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: The het woman in gay male fiction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.210851.20227@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Nov17.154027.5265@hemlock.cray.com> <1ehbarINN5lj@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:08:51 GMT
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- In article <1ehbarINN5lj@gap.caltech.edu> pieter@cs.caltech.edu (Pieter Hazewindus) writes:
- >It is a great comfort to know that there is always someone you can call
- >up and talk to, without sex or power or whatever getting in the way.
-
- I agree. They all turn out to be men in this case, however. :-)
-
- > In fact, it was a surprise to me to find out that there are gay men --
- > no, men in general -- who do not have a close woman friend.
-
- Well, allowing for the fact that we're using this phrase as meaning
- _close_ confidante/sidekick/best friend in a manner similar to Steven's
- literary examples (which were dead-on, BTW), I guess I'd count myself as
- one of those who don't. I have lots of woman friends, but none I'm
- especially emotionally intimate with, and if I indulged in a bit of
- self-examination, I'd probably allow that I'd find it easier to be
- emotionally close to another man, even in that platonic model of
- "sister" or (shudder) "fag hag". I guess I'm just not heterophilic
- enough. The phenomenon does fascinate me, however.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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