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From: millines@fortune.UUCP (Trish Millines)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: To Alan
Message-ID: <3790@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 19:47:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.3790
Posted: Thu Jul 12 19:47:26 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 04:58:01 EDT
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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     I don't know where you get off telling people that I have a problem and
that my situation (being a lesbian) is sad.

     Do you know me?  Do you know whether I'm happy or not?  What difference
does it make to you why I chose to be gay?  

     Well I'll tell you something mister, I'm probably alot happier than you!!
I know what I want and where I'm going.  I'm perfectly happy being gay and
not catering to some man.  

     I'm a minority in three ways; I'm Black, a woman, and a lesbian. So what
makes you think I would be a bigot when all my life there has been some sort
of prejudice against me in various ways, shapes, and forms?  Some people have
never been exposed to the kind of people they claim they dislike, at least I
speak from experience and the experience of others I know.

     I bet you wouldn't call me a bigot if I said most men were sweet and
wonderful human beings - would you?  And yet that is also a generalization.
I also bet that if I was referring to some other category that you don't
belong to, you wouldn't even lift a finger to type one word to this net!!!

     My message to you is to lay off buddy and get a grip on yourself!!!

     I might add that this letter to you is very nice compared to what I'm
really thinking, and I didn't call you any names either, even though there
are quite a few that come to mind!!!

     You know, I bet my original article really hit home....

Trish