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- From: mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu (M. Lloyd)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Are most of us Hetero guys really that insensitive?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:46:35 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- dms4s@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Sailor on the Seas of Fate) writes:
- [the above subject line]
-
- Yes.
-
- Whether you are is a separate issue. You also raise some complex issues
- about a woman's attitude to you, and male het attitudes about non-het
- females. I haven't time to spew a classic Lloydian diatribe on that
- right now [:-)]; perhaps later. Still, most hetero guys don't have clue
- one about anything outside their culturally assigned roles. That's
- partly the nature of human group identity, and partly the current
- western male role: deeply insensitive and with far more emphasis on
- power than understanding.
-
- It's as true as it ever was: a good man is hard to find.
-
- Mike, feeling some of the poignancy of that statement just now.
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- Retro-hippy, music nut, bi and | Raised in laughter to the skies"
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- --The end of confusion is the beginning of death--
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