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From: kgdykes@watbun.UUCP
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Subject: re Re Yuppies
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 15:15:11 EST
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> From: maa@ssc-bee.UUCP (Mark A Allyn)
> Newsgroups: net.politics,net.singles,net.motss
> Date: 22 Apr 85 15:00:15 GMT
> 
> > I hear a lot of people talking about Yuppies in a general sense but rarely
> > mentioning anything particular.  It seems all we know about them is that
> > they buy Volvos, vote in their own best interests, and l...
> > The interesting thing is that Yuppies are generally spoken of disparagingly
> > (on this net and elsewhere) but I never hear any Yuppies defending themselves.
> > This leads...
> I moved to a neighborhood in Seattle, Wa. which is said to be a 'Yuppie'
> neighborhood. After living there only a few months, Iearned that the 
> neighborhood contained a high percentage of gays. 
> 
> In another setting the Boston, Mass, I observed the same phenomenon.
> 
> Maybee yuppie means gay??????
> 
   Hummm, around the "heavy duty" biker types in this town there is a
tendency to think that Yuppies are gay (not that yuppie is a synonym, just
that yuppies ARE...)
  In other words, if you dress "stylishly", drive non-american cars
(note: bikers have a real hangup about non-american products) and go to
chamber music (ie: culture) entertainment then by definition you are "queer".


              - Ken Dykes
                Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo
                Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  N2L 3G1
                {clyde,utzoo}!watmath!watbun!kgdykes

:-) The "real" questions is:
:-}   Are gays the ONLY people who know anything about style and culture...