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- From: krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D. 'Krikket' Krick)
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: Re: Man rapes Man
- References: <GPRIORES.93Jan5113335@fish.oracle.com>
- Message-ID: <krikket.05xw@meltdown.chi.il.us>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:01:28 CST
- Organization: The Meltdown - A Team Star BBS
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- In article <GPRIORES.93Jan5113335@fish.oracle.com>, gpriores@oracle.com (gordon
- prioreschi) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan4.163415.3330@midway.uchicago.edu> tb13@ellis.uchicago.edu
- >(leon joel gross) writes:
- >> [The word "gay" is] offensive for a variety
- >>of reasons for a variety of people.
- >
- >Tell that to the organizers of San Francisco's annual "Gay Pride" parade.
-
- If you had left the above comment *IN CONTEXT*, I would do so without
- hesitation. And I have talked with people who help organize Chicago's annual
- "Gay Pride" parade, and they agree.
-
- Now let's cover what the origional context was, for there is obviously nothing
- wrong with being Gay or Lesbian. Many people are (rightly) proud of having
- that sexual orientation.
-
- The origional comment was "gay rape". A misnomer at best, deliberately harmful
- at worst. Rape is rape is rape. It is an act of violence that takes place
- between two people, one of which is seeking power over the other.
-
- The sex of the abuser and victim are completely irrevelent to the rape, for a
- variety of reasons. Hence the objection to the term "gay rape". There are
- enough people out there who have been raped by a member of their own sex who
- have convinced themselves that because it was a member of their own sex, they
- too must be gay, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
-
- And that's one of the more MINOR objections people have to that term!
-
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- Krikket (a.k.a. Doug Krick) --- krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us
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- "And the Germans killed the Jews. And the Jews killed the Arabs.
- And the Arabs killed the hostages. And that is the news."
-