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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Jason's "Gay Satire"
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 14:46:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 14:46:21 1984
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At the risk of being boorish, prudish, humorless, hopelessly outdated,
I offer my 2 cents:  all things considered, I found Jason's posting in
poor taste.  It was pretty repugnant, no matter how funny much of it
was.  Job discrimination is no minor matter, nor does homophobia offer
only quaint examples of local color among that peculiar ethnic group,
the heterosexuals.  & lampooning these real & sometimes painful issues
via a one-dimensional use of a gay slang (which largely overlaps the 
tired catalog of homophobic epithets) & sexual referents (appropriated
in a half-aware way by punk fashion, & now available for use by younger
homophobes:  I've heard male 20-year-olds garbed in S&M with every mem-
brane pierced by jewelry rant about "fags" & "perverts") is demeaning.

(Gasp! I'll be brief!)

A really robust use of gay slang, such as say gen-yoo-ine street queens
employ, would probably reduce all Usenet nodes to cinders, & get me fired.

If I ever apply to DEC for a job, I think I'd prefer interviewing with
Ken Arndt than with Jason.  That kind of flaming I could stomach.

Sorry, Jason, but.....

						Appalled?  Ra-ther!

						Ron Rizzo


P.S. Why doesn't Jason want to receive flames?  What is satire, after all?