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From: jsol@bbncca.ARPA (Jon Solomon)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Jason's "Gay Satire"
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Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 20:56:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 20:56:33 1984
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I found Jason's satire quite amusing. There seems to be a facet of net.motss
submitters who think that gay issues in general are humorous and that other
facets of net.motss submitters need to lighten up. I agree in principle with
this faction, as long as they are not using humor to cloud the issues or
generally not deal with them. Comic relief is welcome (that's my opinion!)
as long as it is not a replacement for the eventual resolution of the issues
involved.

The reason I found it so humorous is that I could imagine several friends of
mine fitting the situation described in the satire quite well. I think it
was done tastefully and with care not to offend anyone. Agreed that job
descrimination is a serious issue, but so is Nuclear War. That does not stop
newspapers from interjecting some humor into the problem. Look at Bloom
County sometime.

Perhaps we need a net.motss.comics and a net.motss.serious?

Cheers,
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