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- From: ctc10@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.T. Charlton)
- Subject: Re: Tips for coming out to friends?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:39:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.184923.7160@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- suggests:
-
- > you might try to think in terms
- > of *not hiding* it. Like, if your friends are talking about who they
- > went out with last weekend, you can talk about it too, without
- > changing pronouns. Similarly if the discussion is about who's
- > attractive: "Say, look over there, she's pretty cute, isn't she?" --
- > "He's not bad either."
- >
- > You probably want to choose pretty carefully *which* friends you do
- > this with.
-
- I disagree, I have found altering pronouns works fine. Those who're prepared
- to notice, will; those with closed minds won't; if anyone makes an issue of it
- and you don't want to, it can be dismissed as humour.
-
- Besides, I like going man-spotting with my women friends ;)
-
- - Chris
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