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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: nay to net.gay
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 14:55:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 14:55:10 1983
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(There, that should be plenty of ice...)
Sorry to pop Stephen Dyer's bubble, but I seriously doubt that "net.gay"
will be anything like net.singles, which has really gone off its course
many times (a lot of stuff that perhaps should have been in net.social).
I have seen too much of the "sex-is-everything" attitude in net.singles
to adopt a "so what?" attitude.

Further, the idea that we should be able to reasonably discuss things in an
"adult" environment is baloney. There are a LOT of teen-agers on the net,
whose values may not yet be fully set, for whom such a newsgroup may not
be appropriate. (Get the ice ready.) Yes, I believe that homosexuality (see
next paragraph) is psychological not physical, because of the many who have
changed from one to the other without surgery or such. And until *that*
issue is addressed, you've got a group that isn't facing reality.

BTW, would you mind choosing another word and giving "gay" back to the
English language? It used to be one of the nicest words in the language
until some people tried to take over a California county. I still call
homosexuality for what it is, but the way things are going, future
generations will be a century off when they hear about the Gay Nineties.

Moving my terminal downstairs in my igloo,
Larry Bickford, ihnp4!decwrl!qubix!lab