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From: dyer@harvard.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Should book ads disclose sexual slant?
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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 12:29:07 EST
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Summary: let's keep to the specifics, please

I was wondering what discussion Bill Oliver was participating in in his
most recent posting on Delaney's book, but I suspect that it's been
lost in the net, for everything he says seems pretty irrelevant to
the points at hand.  To review some facts:

	o there is no "book review" here, only a book ad.
	o for those who have read, or will take the trouble to
	  read SIMPLGOS, you will note that his treatment of
	  sexuality really has little to do with "gay"/"straight"
	  issues.

It is certainly anyone's prerogative to take offense at Delaney's book,
but that does not exempt the person who makes a public statement about
being offended by the supposed "gay" slant of the novel from equally
public criticism.  We'd take any similar statements about other groups
as simply vulgar and an indication that the poster had problems which
needed to be worked on, and it think it's to the credit of everyone who's
responded except Bill that this is the prevailing sentiment here.  It's
a little unclear to me why Bill cites three articles on evil/bad sexual
practice, because the offensive part of Friedman's article was PRECISELY
because he expressed a dislike for the book's um, orientation, and not
because he felt that specific acts were evil or immoral.  How SHOULD someone
respond, huh?  "Thank you for sharing that with us"?
-- 
/Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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