Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxi!cher From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: A thought on the nature of ... defenses Message-ID: <925@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 16:35:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.925 Posted: Thu Jun 14 16:35:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:31:47 EDT References: <753@bbncca.ARPA> <909@ihuxi.UUCP>, <781@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 >I ought to know better than answer useless homophobic wool-gathering >like Mike Musing's, but.... >Here's a thought: has it struck you that your message is like asking >blacks to tell you about their genetic inferiority or Jews about their >incorrigible avarice (or taste for the blood of Christian children)? > Cheers, > Ron Rizzo This comparison overdramatizes the situation somewhat, but I still think that a member of a group can discuss the sources and reasons of prejudices against their group, etc... , without seeing red and cavalierly applying labels like "...phobic" or "anti...." (At least I think I can). Of course, accusations of great ignorance in the matter is the second best choice. Don't shoot me I'm only a keyboard player - Mike Musing