Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Turing Biography and Discrimination Message-ID: <759@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 00:27:23 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.759 Posted: Tue Jun 5 00:27:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 02:49:21 EDT References: <3501@fortune.UUCP> <300@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 >You've got it all wrong: It's Homosexism and Heterophobia! This guy is either missing a smiley-face ":-)" or he's missing some brains--let's assume the former! I haven't seen any material here which could be called "heterophobic". That history has been distorted by deliberate omission and obfuscation is pretty clear to anyone who examines the record. Boswell relates the rather hilarious (were it not so egregious) history of mistranslations of Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Latin texts, as well as latter-day doctoring of Renaissance authors (e.g., Michelangelo's sonnets.) Ron Rizzo has also mentioned the attempts by revisionist biographers to de-sexualize the personalities of 19th century artists such as Whitman and Wilde. Is it any wonder that people who are concerned for the unbiased appreciation and understanding of history and culture are crying "foul"? If this is "homosexism", then let's have more of it. But I think it is not, nor is it "heterophobia." -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA