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From: blenko@rochester.UUCP (Tom Blenko)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: faggots and dykes
Message-ID: <7450@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 17:21:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 16 17:21:25 1984
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Has it ever occurred to any of you progressive, right-thinking types,
who have been defending gay rights so righteously and at such great
length, that you are engaged in just the same kind of exercise that
authors of articles such as "faggots and dykes" are?

It seems to me that there has been an abundance of

	1) ad personum attacks
	2) unsubstantiated (moreover undecidable) assertions about
	   what gays/straights are/aren't
	3) totally gratuitous speculation (if you think it absurd
	   for someone to argue from the premise of the world's being
	   TOTALLY filled with gays, you certainly needn't substitute
	   your own absurd speculation).

If the thesis is tolerance, as some of you are claiming, feel free to
actively display your own.

If the thesis is that all gays are normal, contributive, well-adjusted
members of society, then we may have a bright future to look forward
to, because straights certainly aren't.

	Tom