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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.motss
Subject: Bigotry
Message-ID: <2569@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 16:15:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  2 16:15:38 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jul-84 03:11:04 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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> Alan's comments about Trish certainly extrapolate on the content of
> one or two articles. Seems to me that he's spouting some typical
> stereotypes of lesbians under cover of analyzing Trish based on very
> little information.
>			Lori Fuller


First Trish posted her bigotry to the net.  Then I was attacked
for objecting to it.  Now I'm accused of being a bigot!  I find
it difficult to respond calmly to such crap, but I'll try...

(1) Trish said, "I think most straight men are your egotistical,
chauvenist, insensitive, macho assholes."  How much extrapolating
do you have to do?  She has a problem!  If you disagree, think
about some other statments of the form:

	Most <whatever> are <derogatory comment>.

How do you react to these statements?  What if you are a member
of <whatever>?

(2) I was not spouting "typical stereotypes", since I don't think
that Trish is a typical lesbian.  There are good and bad reasons
for making just about any choice you can make.  I'm objecting to
Trish's reason, not her choice.  There are lots of people who make
the same choice for better reasons, and I emphatically support them.
(If you've been following this group, you should know that by now.)

(3) I'm getting tired of the double standard.  If a man made this
sort of remark about all woman, I suspect the same people who are
defending Trish would be jumping all over him.  I insist that we
should *consistently* reject *all* such bigotry.

-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories