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- From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
- Subject: Re: Reply to some stuff
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.104648@kuttner.sfc.sony.com>
- Sender: weaver@kuttner (Eric Weaver)
- Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA
- References: <1e5cd1INN7gt@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:46:48 GMT
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- In article <1e5cd1INN7gt@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, ST201434@brownvm.brown.edu (jude) writes:
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- |> First of all, I understand what all of you are saying about the social
- |> stigma of homosexuality. I mean, obviously there is prejudice. Yes, many
- |> boys grow up fearing what there friends will think. I never said that was not
- |> true. Hoewever, doesn't there come a time when you outgrow these things? No,
- |> maybe a 13 year old boy does not have the social maturity, experience, and
- |> self-confidence to stand up for what is wrong, but why not a grown man? The
- |> prejudice against homosexuals is just as wrong as racism or any other kind of
- |> hate. It cannot be justified by saying, oh, i'm homophobic, and maybe that's
- |> not great, but everyone is, so that's okay. The fact that everyone is is NOT
- |> okay. But as long as noone stands up and says something, it won't stop.
- |>
- |> -jude :-( dammit, why?
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- A lot of males never make it past the mental age of 13, as can be seen by
- some of the other followups to your post. A grown man with peers of that
- level of acuity is culturally still in 7th grade. Usually they grow out
- of it by, say, 40 or so. In this humble one's experience.
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- Eric Weaver Sony AVTC 677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35 SJ CA 95134 408 944-4904
- & Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
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- Eric Weaver Sony AVTC 677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35 SJ CA 95134 408 944-4904
- & Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
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