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From: mel@ihmax.UUCP (m lyn)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Jason on Bars
Message-ID: <1@ihmax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 23:39:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 27 23:39:28 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:12:39 EDT
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> In article <3127@decwrl.UUCP> levasseur@morgan.DEC writes:
> >                   Jason on Bars and Bar Behavior
> >                   ******************************
> >....  Since recently moving to Boston I'm freq-
> >ienting bars more often and am noticing a lot that I never did while 
> >living beyond the burbs. It can be fun to go bar hopping with a friend
> >or two and observe the various games that get played;
> >.... What follows is some sharing of goings on behind the
> >doors where "they only come out at night"
> >
> >The Secret Agent
> >----------------
> >This is the guy who ....
> >
> >The Tall Dark Stranger
> >----------------------
> >Somewhat related to the above, the stranger will ....
> >
> What followed in the above article were descriptions of several stereotyped
> behaviors the author found in gay bars.
> 
> The article distressed me. If it was intended to be humorous, it missed
> the mark with me. I found it merely to be nasty criticism of the behavior of
> people only seen at a distance. The criticism seems to me to be pointless - it
> does not shed any light on the behaviors described - it merely criticizes
> without any attempt at understanding. I realized some may view my reaction as
> humorless, but it really hurts me when I see a gay man putting down others
> in this fashion.
> 
>  LABEL JARS, NOT PEOPLE.
> 
> I don't know, maybe I'm just in a humorless mood today.
> -- 
> 
> 
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> | ihnp4!ptsfa!rob                                        |
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	I wish it was simple to look at another and not try to categorize him/
her just let them "BE", then we wouldn't tend to have all the problems we are   experiencing today, now would we ( or wouldn't we)? 

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