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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: Radical feminists
  5. Message-ID: <Bzqv1H.6DA@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <92358.154429HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:29:40 GMT
  11. Lines: 16
  12.  
  13. In article <92358.154429HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> writes:
  14. :In article <1992Dec23.195637.8547@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
  15. :says:
  16. :>
  17. :> ("Gay", after all, is a euphemism coined
  18. :>by people who couldn't face the reality of "homosexual".)
  19. :>
  20. :
  21. :Nonsense.
  22.  
  23. Indeed. Perhaps Imhaginary Nadeau could explain why Gay meant
  24. (hetero)sexually adventurous/libertine for a period of around two
  25. hundred years?  Was it perhaps a euphemism coined by people who
  26. couldn't face the reality of 'sexy'?
  27.  
  28. G
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