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From: ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: hunting, fishing, drunken brawling
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 17:33:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 17:33:18 1985
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I hunt, I fish, and I have even been in a drunken brawl once. I
also sail and play golf. I have a putt returner in my study, and
find my technique has improved vastly since I've started using it.
One thing I'm not afraid of is my image. I don't care about
stereotypes usually associated with these sports, and find much
pleasure in each of them. I use a Zen approach to sailiboat racing and golf,
both of which relax me and stimulate me [immensely so]. My approach
to fishing is as a purist, using barbless hooks and always returning
the fish to its lake/stream if injury hasn't prevented such.

One thing that disgusts me is the way people integrate their
stereotypes into real life without first considering the possible
ramifications. Use myself as an example. I made a comment about gays
paying for their moral practices through the contraction of AIDS.
This struck some as senseless and perjorative, evoking some nasty
replies. Sitting down and thinking about it, I realize now that not
all gays are as immoral as those who I have seen personally. I made
a generalization based upon my own experience, not what is true in
general. Hence next time I see four gays getting it on at a
streetcorner in San Francisco, I will realize that they are not
representative of the population, that they are [pardon the pun]
outliers who are only more visible to society. Please pardon my
comments. For those of you who doubt my own experience, to clarify,
I was visiting my sister, in the Haight, on the night of the Hookers
Ball, when a strange and curious sight I did see. I thought "OK,
it's just a couple of hookers getting frisky". Well, it turned
out to be a group of four transvestites who were balling, oblivious
to all the world except me, to whom they directed many lude remarks
about "rimming". A month later one of the most respected citizens I
knew died of AIDS at the age of 59. Of blood transfusions she had 4
years ago. So what the HELL am I supposed to think? Gays are NOT
immoral? That their actions don't precipitate health hazards? When
will the hate generation come out and really say what they feel?
HUH? We are living in a post nuclear world already, where the bombs
have not gone off but the effects of nuclear weaponry have already
begun to fester-urban dilapidation, punk violence, racial violence,
hermaphroditic social patterns, Stringfellow Acid Pits, post
industrial decay, the greenhouse effect..........................

Sounds like I need to take a walk in the park,eh? Heaven forbid
what I'll see there..............................................