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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Turing Biography and Discrimination
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 00:27:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 00:27:23 1984
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	>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
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