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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!jcf
- From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
- Subject: Re: Hissing...
- Message-ID: <By4z5o.HHB@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov21.110040.6812@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:17:48 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
-
- > 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!
-
- Hear, hear!
-
- The essentialist rhetoric associated with the idiot pseudoconcept of
- *identity* ("truth of your existence", "who you are", etc. ad naus.)
- is, IMAO, a form of bullying & deserves to be punished as such.
-
- I think, however, that in describing this interchange you ought not to
- have stressed the sex of your interlocutor ("one of the women", etc.),
- as it is truly irrelevant & might be taken as slur on that sex. Men
- are *at least* as much given to that kind of claptrap as women are.
-
- Be brave.
- --
- Joe Fineman jcf@world.std.com
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