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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Tips for coming out to friends?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145147.24400@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1jrdj1INNe5a@mizar.usc.edu> <1993Jan24.065752.2143@macc.wisc.edu> <1993Jan24.131549.1209@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan25.001637.19673@reed.edu> <1993Jan25.184923.7160@osf.org> <1993Jan25.223928.449@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:51:47 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1993Jan25.223928.449@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, ctc10@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.T. Charlton) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Either you misunderstood what I meant, or I'm misunderstanding what
- you mean. My "without changing pronouns" meant that, if your friend
- tells you about a date he had with a MOTOS, you can tell him about
- your date with a MOTSS, without hiding, or switching, the gender of
- your date.
-