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- From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Hissing...
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 18:11:07 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
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- |> 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...
- Very nice. Not *my* story, but I can see your point and it is good.
- You must have been a very caring person to begin with...
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- |> 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!
- This is exactly the kind of judging that I referred to (a bit caustically)
- in a different thread. And it seems to me that when people think they have
- figured out their own sexuality, they can't accept that their mapping of
- motivations/desires/events/choices/etc may not be valid outside their own
- figment of reality. Let alone *your* particular figment. I just would
- appreciate it very much if the guilty parts of the LGBi communities would
- allow other people the right to their own figments. Whatever happened to the
- "live and let live" rationale that the queer+ activists spout?
-
- |> *Sigh*
- Seconded. "Do as I say, not as I do." || "I know better than you."
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-
- |> Another Elven Rant 'n Rave (tm) (c) Elf !!!
- 3.5 stars!
- and 4 *hugs*
- js
-