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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: MOTSS response
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 02:49:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 02:49:08 1983
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the people i know who hate homosexuals have one trait in
common -- their self-image is very sexual. The think of themselves
as 'men' and as 'women'. I do not understand this attitude. I think
of myself as 'human' and only get around to thinking about the
'woman' part when I have to use a public washroom. Being a woman is
not ever-present in my mind and I truly do not wake up every morning
thanking the Lord that I was born a woman rather than a man.

This last sentence will undoubtably startle a lot of people. For
those of you who do wake up prasing God for your sex, I am deadly
serious, it really does not matter to me. To those of you who do
not understand how people can wake up and thank God for their
sex, I am deadly serious, there are people who do this all the
time.

Clearly, though, if you think that your sex is the essential part
of you, you are going to be very uncomfortable around homosexuals.
Homosexuals, as a class, have figured out that there are rather
nice traits of humanity which generally come in the package
labeled 'male' or 'female' but that there is no sexual monopoly
on these traits. 

This attitude does not go over well with the homosexual-haters. 

Thus if you went up and made a pass at such a person, and were the
same sex as that person he would view the whole thing as an
attack on his person, since his person is not distinct from
his sex. Rather than taking it as a compliment, he would think that
you have mortally wounded him, since you have ignored (or worse
mocked) his essential self.

Clearly, I am speaking from my own point of view, and i deal with
passes on a one-to-one basis and do not view the sex of the person
who proposed the proposition as an essential feature, for just as
I think of myself as a human, I think of other people as humans
as well. Thus i may be a little hard on the homosexual-haters because
I really do not understand how they can walk around in their personal 
self-image at all --- I would find it a torment.

In addition, I do not know many homosexual-haters, so my conclusion
may be only good for a very small subset of homosexual-haters, which
I happen to have come into contanct with. People who hate homosexuals
for religious reasons i have not had to deal with, and they may be
quite different in their reasons.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura