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- From: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder)
- Newsgroups: ba.motss
- Subject: Re: Maria Schriver _ FIRST PERSON: gay 90s
- Message-ID: <1k8umuINN1kd@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:39:10 GMT
- References: <f94Y02Jd33Fv01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- In article <f94Y02Jd33Fv01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, ljm40@spa.amdahl.com (Lisa Malachowsky) writes:
- >Among the many shortcomings of this show which I
- >don't think I want to go into just yet, I think
- >the statistics that were quoted were much overblown
- >in several cases. Can anyone confirm these from
- >other sources:
- > - percent of lesbian couples having
- > commitment ceremonies (she said 9 out of 10)
- > number)
- Yes that definitely sounded overblown to me when I heard it! There was also
- a statistic that I though was majorly "underblown": she said that the
- percentage of gays in the population was 3-10%. I thought it was around
- 10-12%. Three percent?! Get real!
-
- I haven't finished watching my video tape so far, so I can't comment too
- much yet. So far, I haven't liked Maria too much in terms of the way
- she seemed so incredulous about the whole "gay" thing. I put "gay" in quotes
- because that is the way she does it. At one point she was interviewing a
- gay man and asked him how long he has known he was (makes quotes with her
- hands) "gay." Very weird IMO.
-
- On the positive side I have liked the gay and lesbian couples and individuals
- they have chosen to interview (I'm only about 20 minutes into it so far). They
- all appeared articulate and seemed to be living positive, healthy, "normal"
- lives.
-
- -Robin
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