Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: faggots and dykes Message-ID: <302@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 22:41:04 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.302 Posted: Thu Jun 21 22:41:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 02:33:58 EDT References: <2560@harpo.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 24 Well, emily post dictates a cooling-off period before certain followups. I think a week was enough. Let me extract the rational portion of harpo!jrl's by now infamous posting. The premise from which it follows seems to be: Axiom: Behavior which tends to propagate genes is GOOD; behavior which diminshes the propagation is BAD. Hence the conclusion follows that homosexuality is BAD. Some other conclusions are: Childlessness is BAD, even for heterosexuals. Enormous families are VERY GOOD, especially if you can draw on the resources of others to keep them alive. For example, put them on welfare or give them away for adoption. The true paragons of VERY VERY GOOD behavior are habitual rapists. Please don't think that I accept the "axiom", but I will not put a humor marker on this. The arch-conservatism exemplified by jrl is nothing to laugh at. Matt Crawford