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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Suzzie gets confused about sex...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015119.223@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:51:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.235442.10422@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- From article <1993Jan8.235442.10422@ncsu.edu>,
- by dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger):
- > In article <1993Jan8.230127.21550@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- > mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
-
- >>> Hey Larry, that sounds to me like a proposal, if ever I heard one.
-
- >>> Can I be matron of honor? huh? huh? Can I? Can I?
- >>> Or how 'bout best man?
-
- >> Despite your evident confusion about your sexual status, it is safe to
- >> say you could not be "best" man or woman.
- >> If your current sex is still in doubt, I suggest you check your mucus
- >> again. That always seems to reassure you.
-
- > Hey Steve Matheson! Here's an excellent example of the pro-choice
- > game of "enrage the opposition" that I was talking about. Ms. Forgach
- > makes some innocent comments, and right out of the blue, Mark Cochran
- > blithers out some trash and insults! Of course, she'll get hammered
- > for being "wicked" if she responds with even the smallest flame.
-
- Mark's comment was crude and obnoxious. I detect, however, that it
- was also context-specific. I note (and perhaps you do too) that I've
- been debating Mark in a branch of the "Spoken like a true prolifer"
- thread for days now. The only way I could get him to flame me was
- to *ask* him to -- at which point he invented a special insult just
- for me [beaming, bursting with pride].
-
- I'm left to wonder whether there's something magically mesmerizing
- about my posts that leads sinister, bloodthirsty thugs like Mark
- Cochran to degenerate into polite milquetoasts -- or whether folks
- like Suzanne are just demonstrating the truth of the Bible:
- One reaps what one sows.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-