Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "Why be gay ...?" Message-ID: <1281@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 05:36:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.1281 Posted: Wed Jun 20 05:36:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:40:10 EDT References: <719@grkermit.UUCP> <628@pyuxqq.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 42 >I think the word "gay" is a real perversion of English. >There is nothing gay (i.e. happy) about a life-style that some homosexuals >practice which encourages diseases like AIDS. There is nothing wonderful about a life-style that some heterosexuals practice which encourages diseases like Herpes, Syphilus, or Gonorhea. First we assign a bit to sex... Then we assign a bit to gender... Then we assign a bit to preferred gender of partner... Then we assign a bit to preferred sex of partner... Now then...If your sex is the same as your gender, and your partner's sex is the same as your partner's gender, and your sex is opposite your partner's, then you are straight (praise the lord :-) But, If your sex is the same as your gender, and your partner's sex is the same as your partner's gender, and your sex is the same as your partner's, then you are gay (praise the devil :-) However, If your sex is the same as your partner's gender, and your partner's sex is the same as your gender, and your sex is not the same as your gender, then, what if two hermaphrodites were partners...de ja vu... The point I'm trying to make is this... There are two kinds of people in the world, Those who relate to people, And those who divide people into different kinds of people before they decide how they are *supposed* to (not) relate to that person based on whether or not that person can be properly squashed into the stereotype against which they are being measured. [ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4]!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems) To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. e.e.cumming