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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: connotative load
Message-ID: <515@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 11:57:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 11:57:02 1984
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ccieng3!jbf was hopefully aiming for irony, but he missed it by a long shot
when he passed off the following crack:

	>I would have hoped that the people on this news group would be a
	>little more charitable with the connotative load on their words;
	>after all, this very newsgroup is based on faggots wanting to stick
	>their weenies into other queer boys.

Aside from the obvious objections to this odious remark, it might help
to remind ccieng3!jbf that the "people on this newsgroup" are diverse
in opinion and behavior.  I don't think there's any reason to expect
higher standards on this group than on any other (I mean, take a look
at what this guy wrote.)

Now, to the obvious: a paragraph like the above is insulting and insensitive
and does not belong on any public newsgroup, least of all 'net.motss'.
Not only is it blatantly inflammatory and homophobic, it's also sexist.
Perhaps the gay women who read this newsgroup would like to comment on
ccieng3!cbf's analysis of the "basis" of 'net.motss'.

-- 
/Steve Dyer
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