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- From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Feeling out of place
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:29:58 GMT
- References: <memo.731853@cix.compulink.co.uk>,<1992Nov6.141643.16848@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Nov13.192345.4639@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
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- >sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- >> I ran into a completely different sort of fish-out-of water feeling on
- >> Monday when, for the first time, I went along to the regular University
- >> LesBiGay meeting/social.
- >Hmm. Somthing I can't say I've ever bothered doing. [...]
-
- >There are definitely two distinct sets of lesbigays in Cambridge - the
- >politically motivated, and the others. I never, ever, get involved in the
- >politics of sexuality - hence never turning up to the abovementioned meetings.
- >I see sexuality as something to do/be, rather than something to hold political
- >opinions about.
-
- I'm afraid if you believe it should be legal, that's a political opinion.
- Everything is political. You can't escape having political opinions. That
- isn't the same as being politically motivated.
-
- It's fine with me not to be politically motivated (if rather sad in this
- sort of society), but to deny the importance of politics, I just can't
- agree with.
-
- > OK, so there are prejudicial bits of legislation out there, but
- >I know plenty of heterosexuals who dislike them just as much as lesbigays, but
- >are put off by political hackery from supporting the cause.
-
- Are you saying we shouldn't dare take action against the prejudicial bits of
- legislation in case it's seen as political hackery?
-
- Labelling any kind of political activism as hackery sounds to me like a
- cop-out to excuse yourself from following your conscience and getting
- involved. In any case there are other ways to be active besides what you
- see as "hackery".
-
-
- /jon
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