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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Subject: Re: Muffin on Parade
- Message-ID: <C02xFJ.19v@agora.rain.com>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
- References: <55440005@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:52:29 GMT
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- Before I start: hi John, welcome to soc.motss. It sounds like you've been
- here for a while though.
-
- jprigeon@hpscit.sc.hp.com (John Prigeon) writes:
- >One thing about the bear code has puzzled me, though. Does anyone really
- >use e+ or e++? IMHO, it sounds like telling someone at a bar that you're,
- >oh, a millionare or dated Tom Cruise (or Wilford Brimley for the ursine
- >types), or something.
-
- I look at it as just another physical characteristic like h or t or w.
- The interpretation you put onto it is your own.
-
- This is really painful for me to talk about, but I'll be damned if
- I'm going to be silent about it any longer. Everybody thinks it's such
- a big goddam party to have a very large penis? Try years of embarassment
- as a teenager when it decided to make its presense known during social
- situtions. Try never wearing shorts in public and avoiding PE
- because you didn't want to be talked about in the showers. Try
- always having to tuck your shirttail in and carry your books at
- waist level because it stuck out the top of your pants. Try having
- your feelings dismissed by people who found it easier to marginalize
- you than try to understand how being physically different could
- cause you to be ashamed of your own body. Try imagining how it
- feels to have people think of you as a piece of meat.
-
- As difficult as it may be for you to imagine, most men in this
- category are actually very shy about it. No one wants to be
- picked on because their bodies are different. It took years of
- patience by my husband to get me to see that it didn't have to be a
- bad thing and that I could allow myself to have a little fun
- with it. So I'm not going to hide it so much any more. But I don't
- attach any meaning to it either. If other people do that's
- their problem. I know it doesn't mean a goddam thing.
-
- I'm sitting at my terminal debating on whether to post this or
- abort. I know I'm going to get flamed by morons who can't believe
- that anybody would consider this to be a problem.
-
- Fuck it. I'm tired of remaining silent.
- --
- Brent Capps |
- bcapps@agora.rain.com (gay stuff) | (B4) h t w- c+ g+ k? s-: e++ r-
- bcapps@atlastele.com (telecom stuff) |
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