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- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!dyer
- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Appreciation of the big & beautiful woman
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.214107.13139@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Dec2.040142.17606@spdcc.com> <1992Dec10.230146.3980@netcom.com> <1992Dec11.132058.11652@grebyn.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:41:07 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Dec11.132058.11652@grebyn.com> fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster) writes:
- >Another point: the words "lurking fetishist" and the analogy to
- >pedophilia clearly imply pathology. There's nothing pathological
- >about being sexually attracted to fat people. I'm amazed that you
- >would suggest such a thing.
-
- I didn't. I'm amazed that such would occur to you. There's nothing
- pathological about my being attracted to men with beards either, but
- if I started writing a series of articles on the wondrousness of having
- sex with men with beards, it might strike some people as a bit unseemly,
- and a rather hamfisted attempt at seduction.
-
- >I do appreciate your "I could be all wet" qualifier, though. If you'd
- >restricted your comments to an aesthetic objection to "eyelash batting
- >and sweet talk," what you say wouldn't have bothered me. After all,
- >it's equally self-serving, and equally valid as a course of behavior,
- >to object to what you *don't* like (e.g., eyelash batting), as it is
- >to praise what you do like. This newsgroup is for all of us, not
- >just for those who appreciate Avery's charm.
-
- My concern was for those women who might feel uncomfortable with such
- articles. _I_ felt uncomfortable and I wasn't even on the receiving end
- of the attention.
-
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-