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- From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Read this if you are straight!
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:53:52 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- References: <1993Jan21.163402.9699@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> <1jv6feINNbt5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan25.222927.9448@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.222927.9448@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1jv6feINNbt5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
- >cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner) writes:
- >> After all, once you've "come out of the closet", you could never make
- >> -any- kind of reference to being straight ever again, could you? You'd
- >> have to lie, and pretend to be gay, and pretend to be indignant when
- >> someone says a -really funny- joke about AIDS,
- >It's not necessary to be a homosexual in order to express indignation
- >over a "really funny joke about AIDS". You're giving heterosexuals
- >way too little credit.
-
- I'm not talking about heterosexuals in general (which happen to include me);
- I'm talking about Ted. Ted probably finds AIDS jokes very funny. I don't.
-
- >> and you'd have to pretend to be 'between boyfriends',
- >I've had to pretend to be 'between girlfriends' before.
-
- In order to keep your job? I seriously doubt it.
-
- >> and generally have to repress your own personal beliefs because you don't
- >> want to lose your job.
- >What makes you think heterosexuals don't have to go through
- >similar contortions?
-
- Maybe it's because I'm a heterosexual who has never had to claim otherwise to
- hold a job?
-
- --
- "Well, do you ever get the feeling that the Story's too damn real
- and in the present tense?"
- Christian Wagner - cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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