Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!blenko 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 Article-I.D.: rocheste.7450 Posted: Sat Jun 16 17:21:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:23:34 EDT References: <1059@nsc.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 23 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