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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Re: What's a "partner"? (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.081506.4705@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
- Sender: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
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- Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <1993Jan8.025608.29819@tcsi.com> <1993Jan8.130709.13566@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan8.215359.1851@tcsi.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:15:06 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1993Jan8.215359.1851@tcsi.com>
- miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan8.130709.13566@news.acns.nwu.edu> Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
- >>Meeting a mixed-sex group of bisexuals full of sci-fi fans and
- >>computer geeks (UCBU) makes evident how artificial these sex-linked roles
- >>really are.
- >
- >Artifice is human, so I don't condemn it out of hand. Are you sure you
- >haven't substituted one artifice for another? Not to slam (I'm arguably
- >a sci-fi fan and computer geek myself), but are people who are into these
- >things somehow a likelier source of "natural" roles? Kind of counter-
- >intuitive, in some ways.
-
- My thought, (which may not be obvious to those who don't know UCBU) was
- that there were both men and women who were the computer geeks and
- sci-fi fans, and at the same time, being bi, they were all generally more
- expressive and unconventional. Sort of a mild "gender-fuck".
-
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- Albert Lunde | Interfaith | *Y*Y* "A branch on the
- Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu | Bisexual | *Y* tree of life"
- | Feminist |.......|.........................
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