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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!elf
- From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
- Subject: Hissing...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.110040.6812@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:00:40 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- I, and three other gentlemen I know (two of whom I'm rather hot for
- :-) gave a presentation panel on "Computers and sex," or, as I put it,
- "How UNIX got me laid."
-
- Somewhere along the way our host asked her infamous question, "What
- do you get out of this?" And after the others had gone, I said "Well,
- Usenet made me queer..."
-
- I got hissed at by four women in the front row. I ignored them and
- went on with my commentary, discussing how you don't know anything
- about the person on the other side of the screen, and how this isn't
- *anything* like a personal ad because networks allow for long,
- involved, and yet very self-secure and self-exposing dialogues before
- you actually meet the person, if you ever meet at all... and how, in
- the course of one of these, I realized that I *cared* for the man on
- the other end and I wanted to show him how much I cared...
-
- From *my* perspective, Usenet gave me the safety and security to
- realize that I could love _people_, no matter what they were. It
- dragged me out of my safely heterosexual shell. I _let_ the process
- happen, but I didn't necessarily go looking for the process. I didn't
- _want_ to be bisexual, I just didn't fight it when I realized where my
- thoughts were taking me, at 24 years of age...
-
- One of the women took me to task afterwards, telling me that I was
- born this way, and that the contacts I had made only showed me the
- 'truth of my existence.'
-
- Now wait.
-
- This is _me_ we're talking about. She wasn't there, she didn't see
- the process. How *dare* she tell me she knows better than I what went
- on in my head during my coming out? How *dare* she assume she knows me
- better than I know myself? I'd never met this woman prior to tonight!
-
- *Sigh*
-
- Another Elven Rant 'n Rave (tm) (c) Elf !!!
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