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- From: SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu (Steve Murray)
- Newsgroups: alt.homosexual
- Subject: Re: PSU
- Message-ID: <92328.081809SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:18:09 GMT
- References: <92326.212453MGH110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Nov22.204245.140105@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Organization: Penn State Anarchists
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- X-Subliminal-Message: You will never graduate.
-
- In article <1992Nov22.204245.140105@zeus.calpoly.edu>, jkusters@zeus.calpoly.edu
- (Chrome Jester) says:
- >
- ><MGH110@psuvm.psu.edu> divulges:
- >->Why bash an entire University for the ignorance of one or group of people?
- >
- >Well, you see, Mr. MGH110, it is simply because the highest rate of stupid
- >ignorant posts on USENET comes from PSU. I can't explain it, no-one I've
- >met can explain it. PSU just seems to breed a certain type of USENET
- >poster. It'd be nice if someone started bucking that trend...
-
- Well, it's actually quite simple why the ignorance is so abundant here -
- we're in the middle of nowhere. This University is WASP heaven - it seems
- to be about 90+% white hetereosexuals. Any black man that doesn't look
- like he's on the football or basketball team is regarded with suspicion.
- The only gay bar in town is the source of constant jokes. Almost anybody
- you meet is practically exactly like you - white, straight, from somewhere
- in Pennsylvania, and with almost exactly the same mentality.
-
- The diversity here is a joke. (Granted, the minorities on campus aren't
- helping much either - I think trying to segregate yourself with Mr. and
- Ms. Black Penn State, and the article last year in the university
- newspaper where a columnist suggested that all black people arm themselves
- and shoot any white people who give them trouble were and are *BIG*
- mistakes.) When your formative years are spent in a mostly white, mid-PA
- high school and a mostly white, mid-PA college, you tend to form a very
- strong "Us vs. Them" mentality - where "Them" is anybody different from
- you - black, orientals, gays, etc. Gays especially - almost no homo-
- sexuals come out during high school, so the great majority of the
- students here don't think they even *know* any gays when they start
- college. I myself didn't meet an "out" homosexual until my sophomore
- year. (Luckily, I already had a "live and let live" attitude by that
- time.)
-
- So when these clueless people finally get a computer account, they hear
- of this really neat-o thing called "Netnews". They start reading, and
- *boom* they see alt.homosexual. Immediately they think "Whoa! Fags!"
- And they think it would really be keen if they can post something
- ignorant that they think is completely hilarious. They have no faces
- to deal with, nobody stopping them, and they don't think there will be
- any repurcussions from it. Would they do it in person? No, probably
- not - at least, not by themselves.
-
- Luckily, PSU has realized this in the past few years, and PSUVM no
- longer has access to any of the alt.sex.* groups or alt.flame
- (these were the major sources of embarrassment a few years ago).
- Unfortunately, we still have random idiots who find groups like
- this and keep the reputation going. Whee.
-
- (Oh, btw - quite a few people reading this are probably wondering if
- I'm gay or not. Since I find it *incredibly* annoying to see "Well,
- I'm *not* gay" written 40 times all over a 30 line post from anybody
- at PSU, tough shit - you can sit there and wonder.)
- --
- Steve Murray | SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu | murr@dev-null.phys.psu.edu
- Look at me can't you see / All I really want to be
- Is free from a world / That hurt me - RHCP
- Disclaimer: I don't speak for PSU or the CAC and they don't speak for me
-