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- From: markm@ogicse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: bear vs. twink
- Message-ID: <46140@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:47:47 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.46140
- References: <14728.2b0b3de6@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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- In article <14728.2b0b3de6@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> msp@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Pettersen) writes:
- >I am very disturbed by the fact that in all this discussion of bear
- >vs. twink, that no one has presented the viewpoint of those of us who
- >are admirers both of Jacob, who was a smooth man, and Esau, his brother,
- >who was an hairy man. I'm tired of people saying that it's just a phase,
- >that I'm really one or the other, but don't have the courage to come out
- >completely.
-
- I subscribe to the "wine" theory of attraction:
-
- I don't care what it says on the label, I'll judge by what's
- on the inside, thank you very much.
-
- -or-
-
- A good wine improves its label, not the reverse.
-
- I find myself pretty much limited to motss, but not further limited and
- don't particularly appreciate people who assume that just because I am
- not dating a smooth-skinned person that I could not be so attacted. I
- am similarly offended by people who assume that I limit my attraction to
- <insert label here> just because I am dating someone who may fall
- into that category.
-
- But then, I have always hated category theory (pointer back to *that*
- old thread :).
-
- I am not attracted to bears, twinks, robber barons, or tax lawyers.
- I am attracted to men and willing to keep an open mind from there.
-
- <George Bush whiny voice *on*>
-
- Labels, bad. very bad. judging the person, good. very good.
- group-based discrimination. not gonna do it. wouldn't be prudent
- at *this* juncture.
-
- <GBWV *off*>
-
- So let's see more stories about *people* who just might happen to be ursine
- or smooth or maybe even <gasp> not specified?
-
- --mark
- ---
- Mark Morrissey markm@cse.ogi.edu Hate is NOT a Family Value.
- "You picked a bad day. Pat Buchanan's here, and he's passing out a
- petition to get the name of the species changed to hetero-sapien..."
- - Phil, the bar owner on "Murphy Brown"
-