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  2. Newsgroups: soc.bi
  3. From: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Watters)
  4. Subject: Re: question about the triangle         
  5. Reply-To: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
  6. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:21:00 +0000
  7. Message-ID: <memo.899149@cix.compulink.co.uk>
  8. Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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  12. Drewcifer on \/riangles:
  13.  
  14. >To add something to this whole triangle discussion, I've been told by
  15. >someone that the triangle specifically relates to AIDS when right-side up,
  16. >and represents "taking back the language" or some such PC agenda like that
  17. >when upside down.
  18.  
  19.  /|                                          |\
  20. < |  What's this "right side up" business??  | >
  21.  \|                                          |/
  22.  
  23. <grin>
  24.  
  25. Sounds terribly phallocentric to say that only triangles "pointing" up are
  26. the right way, while triangles that look like a common pattern for female
  27. pubic hair aren't...
  28.  
  29.   //\/\/  iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
  30.           who would like to do a few more angles,
  31.           but the ASCII character set lets him down.
  32.  
  33. >>>MATRIX version  1.21e
  34.