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- From: key@soda.berkeley.edu (peter li'ir key)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: How did you find soc.motss?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:55:19 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- References: <1992Dec20.231739.8064@reed.edu>
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- i remember being bored one day and looking through the list of
- newsgroups. i subscribed to all the groups that i was curious
- or interested about, not to squeamish about, or just did not understand.
- so i joined things like rec.games.go, rec.art.poems,
- soc.religion.christian, and other relatively 'tame' groups; the
- previous groups falling under curious or not to squeamish. i subscribed
- to soc.motss 'cuz i couldn't fathom what it could be about.
- had i known at the time soc.motss would have fallen under 'too
- squeamish', and i wouldn't have subscribed.
-
- now at the time i was trying to be a devout 'fundie' (but i got
- over that after a little time). so after reading the first few
- articles i unsubscribed in shock and disgust. at this time i wasn't
- even out to myself. over the course of a few months i subscribed
- and unsubscribed. at first i was afraid someone would see me
- reading soc.motss, and then i came up with an 'excuse'; "i didn't
- know what motss meant." (i look back at that time and the utter
- self-loathing makes me angry.)
-
- after some soul searching and a little help from a friend, i finally
- came out to myself. reading soc.motss had given me the needed insight,
- despite all the 'fundie' crap i grew up with, that being homosexual
- was not 'sinful' or 'evil'. thanks folks. *hug*
-
- that's how i first found soc.motss. though to be honest i never
- followed more than four articles before unsubscribing again
- until i came out. so i didn't find out the really neat things
- about soc.motss (the non existent 'cabal', big red pumps, etc ;)
- until i started reading regularly.
-
- peter li'ir key
- key@soda.berkeley.edu
-