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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Happy as a homosexual
Message-ID: <8116@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 14:13:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 23 14:13:02 1984
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>> I don't know where you get the idea that homosexuals are basically unhappy.
>...
>> I don't look at every woman and drool (like most men do!!)
>...
>> I personally chose to be gay because I think most straight men are your
>> egotistical, chauvanist, insensitive, macho assholes, who treat women like
>> they're here on this earth to serve them.  Of course there is that 1 in 1000
>> who is just perfect, but why should I bother to go through the jerks just to
>> get that one!!!!!  Plus a woman knows what a woman wants, and your basic
>> straight man could care less, just so long as he gets what he wants.
>
>Kiddo, if you think that is either happy or well-adjusted, I beg to differ.
>I know that "man-hating" is a hackneyed label; I don't like to apply it.
>On the other hand, you sure as hell don't like the breed.
>
>		Keith
>
It seems that to you men-hater = unhappy and not "well-adjusted".

Not well-adjusted to what?  to the way men around her have acted?
What do you consider to be a good way to adjust to such a situation?
hang around with the jerks, taking dirt from them hoping that they
change their ways?  that sounds very masochistic to me.
To me turning into a lesbian seems to be the most intelligent way
to adjust to this situation without insisting that men she knows change.
It seems to me that her attitude is "I don't want this shit, but
you seem to want it so I won't have anything to do with it or you".
If I was surrounded by men who are jerks and women who are nice,
I'd do the same.  Fortunately for me I am surrounded by men and 
women who are nice, so I can basically choose to do what I want.
And probably fortunately for you you are in the same situation.

Maybe she is unhappy maybe she isn't, who knows?  we certainly don't
from the little we know of her, but from what she wrote, there is
one thing we know for sure: she'd be even more unhappy if she was to
choose to have men lovers instead of women.  So what are you saying
exactly?  that her behaviour doesn't fit in your view of happiness?
tough!  there is not ONE WAY to be happy.  I personnally don't like
having to avoid a whole class of people in order to be happy, but
if that's what makes her happy, who are you to tell her that she isn't?


Sophie Quigley
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