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- From: jmacvean@willamette.edu (Jennifer MacVean)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Yet another thing that I wrote...
- Message-ID: <BxzCsH.H3B@willamette.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:26:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: willamet.BxzCsH.H3B
- References: <1992Nov16.182959.29244@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Nov18.170425.19899@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- I haven't posted much lately, but I really wanted to respond to this.
- In article <1992Nov18.170425.19899@infodev.cam.ac.uk> SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk
- (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.182959.29244@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- kdc5072@ultb.rit.edu () writes:
- >>*hugs* to all...."Let It Snow, Let it snow, let it snow..."
- >> MASKS
- >> [ ... good stuff deleted to save bandwidth ... ]
- >> So my question is this:
- >> Are you wearing a mask that someone wants you to wear?
- >>
- >Yes.
- >Curiously enough, this is something I've been going over a lot in
- >counselling recently. It's all very well to recognise that it is
- >a mask you present to the world -- but after all the years showing
- >nothing else, can you really be sure that there's anything left
- >inside? That there is a real you -- something more than the masks
- >presented for the benefit of others? Would you dare to try and
- >remove the masks if you believed/knew this to be the case (I can't)?
-
- Generally speaking, yes, there is something immutable, individual,
- and valuable behind everyone's sets of masks. After awhile most of
- us forget it's there and what it's like...so the idea of dropping our
- masks is really scary. However, while it's good to let it out in little
- bits where you're safe so *you* know who you are, society is such that
- for our own _protection_ we have to wear masks.
-
- My point is this, don't let your mask down except when you're safe, but
- do let it down sometimes, and don't feel bad about wearing masks, you can
- make them more like yourself and we all need them anyway.
-
- >\S
- >SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk | There's nowt |"And in this moment, I need to be needed
- >sarrowsm@nyx.cs.du.edu| so queer as |"When my self-esteem is sinking,
- > | folk.... |"I like to be liked" -- Peter Gabriel
-
- Lynne (poet) (whyte tyger) Internet: jmacvean@willamette.edu
-
- ||| You're never so wrong as when you're sure you're right. |||
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