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From: trb@masscomp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: REAL men...
Message-ID: <252@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 19:30:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 19:30:09 1984
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Just imagine this situation:

    Fred Flamethrower spews forth some crap in some netnews group:

	"Men whose last names begin
	with the letter T are all fairies."

Sure as the sun rises in the morning, some other person, either an
irate Mr. T or a Mr/s. !T liberal, will speak up in defense of
T he-manliness.

Problem here is that any self respecting thinking person will realize
that the problem is not with T-men, it's with Fred Flamethrower, and
the solution isn't inane and heartfelt blue-faced defense in
net.jokes.d, the solution is to ignore Fred.  We all can recognise a
slob, thank you, we don't need your eagle eyes for that.

I'm tired of hearing wimpy mush about real men and real real men
and feminism and humanism.  Get the [] picture?

If someone calls someone else an asshole in this medium,
who does it hurt?  Caller or callee?

Maybe this shouldn't go in net.motss, but I figure that this is a good
enough forum for discussing the way people view others (and I'm
following up a net.motss note).

	Go ahead.  Call me an asshole.
	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp Inc  Westford MA   (617) 692-6200 x274