NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/soc/bi/17617

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From: [e-mail] (Guy Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Bi-wariness
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Date: 7 Jan 93 11:43:15 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>I used to have a firm conviction that any group of people
>(white, black, muslim, chistian, feminist, gay, you name it) has its
>equal share of assholes.  Just the fact that a group is a group because
>they happen to share some firm conviction (yeah ;-) ) makes some of
>them speak out loud and reveal themselves as such.
>
>Soc.bi sort of changed my ideas on this.  Being a group where people
>tend to think of things from both sides seems to attract the more
>sensible among us.

I wonder if that helps to explain why I feel more comfortable with this
group, despite not being bisexual and despite only having been posting
for a short time, than with (say) soc.men or soc.singles, where I don't
feel I've anything relevant to say?  People seem to be far less polarized
in their views here than on most of the soc.* groups.


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