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- From: mchenry@latech.edu (Michael Q. McHenry)
- Subject: Re: Gays in the Military..what nobody is talking about:
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:45:47 GMT
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- In article <crb2.723223793@Ra.MsState.Edu> crb2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Chad R. Berthelson) writes:
- >dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg) writes:
- >
- >>Excuse me, how can you get AIDS from someone just by you both being
- >>naked and within 30 ft. of each other? This has got to be one of the
- >>most homophobic (literally) posts I have seen...)
- >
- >first your scenario is incomplete, in the military showers that I have
- >taken (many, and you?) you are MUCH closer than 30 feet, it is in fact
- >crowded and there is water running all over the place. Are you going
- >to suggest that if I have AIDS and wash myself in water and poor that
- >water over your broken-skinned feet (athletes foot..) you wouldn't
- >be conserned?
-
- Not concerned in the least. Zero. NADA.
-
- You ever sit in a public hot tub? Maybe yes, maybe no. It is arguably
- similar to your question and it is not inconveivable that an HIV+
- victim has been in that water before. Would you let the _unfounded_
- fear of Aids keep you from enjoying something that you liked?
- I would be surprised if HIV could survive in hot tub water long
- enough to infect another human being and it was already mentioned
- that showers are not very effiicient breeding grounds for HIV, so
- what's the problem? Lack of education and the resulting fear.
-
- > If you aren't then you need to rethink who you're calling
- >ignorant.
-
- Let's make a distinction. AIDS-ignorant vs. OMNI-ignorant. Placing
- you in the first group would seem justifiable from your postings, but
- this does not support the assumption that you fall into the second.
- There are too many goddamn unjustifiable, illogical and weak
- assumptions congesting the political air. Assumptions just act as
- catalyst to fear, and it is fear, IMO, that is everyone's true
- enemy.
-
-
- --
- Quinn McHenry
- mchenry@engr.latech.edu
- Biomedical Engineering
- Louisiana Tech University
-