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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Women and the consumption of toilet paper.
Message-ID: <401@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 12:57:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 12:57:13 1985
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>From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
>Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY
>Message-ID: <1898@ukma.UUCP>
>
>In article <233@luke.UUCP>, sml@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes:
>> Thank you SOOOOOO much for reminding us over
>> and over and over (at excessive cost) that you are a handicap [sic].
>
>	Who said anything about my being a handicap? I'm simply
>promoting a good cause!
>
>	So what if I am anyway?! Where do get off trying to imply
>that someone using a wheelchair is incapable of writing acceptable
>articles?! Just because your legs work, why does that make you
>any better than someone who can't walk?! Or are you one of those
>people who shun the handicapped because you're afraid of them?!
>
>	People are people! Everybody deserves an even break!

First of all, I believe the correct (or intended) verb is to "have a
handicap" rather than to "be a handicap". The connotations are *much*
different.

Secondly, Edward, you are right, everyone does deserve an even break. I had
always assumed, however, that since the net was something of an anonymous
medium, everyone got one. It doesn't matter if I am an Adonis or a
one-eyed, hunchback leper with VD provided my articles are "acceptable".

No one has said that handicapped individuals can not write good articles.
The question is, however, if the net is so anonymous, how do you know
someone is handicapped unless they point it out in a posting?

A person who is handicapped, however, would tend to take away from his
credability by repeating that he is handicapped over and over in posting
after posting. If you read net.singles, then you should be familiar with
the Jeff Seargent "I am a nothing. No one loves me since I can't love
myself syndrome." You may get some sympathy at first, but then people get
bored with it.


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