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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Gay Blade" joke
Message-ID: <19476@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 23:59:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 23:59:31 1984
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	>From decvax!ucbvax!faustus Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
	>
	>Another one: REAL men don't run around telling people how
	>offended they are about jokes, because they are secure enough so
	>that they aren't threatened by stereotypes that might possibly
	>be applied to them. 
	>
	>Wayne

Would that it were so simple minded.  You don't have to be the butt of a joke
to realize that it is offensive, and to take public issue with it.  Would
you make the same claim if the notorious "BLKTRAN (offensive to blacks)"
joke, or something equally vile were posted, since you were secure in the
fact that you weren't black?

Funny how this guy's posting echos the same vile, homophobic sentiments
that the original "Gay Blade" joke does.  He takes the position that
because the poster took issue with the joke, this stands as prima facie
evidence that he is either gay or "threatened", both of which are implicitly
undesirable qualities, from the text of his response.

If someone posts a joke which could be construed as insulting to some group,
it is not inappropriate for someone else to mention that fact, hopefully
in the spirit of education.  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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