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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: "breeders" - unintentionally hurtful ?
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 09:51:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 09:51:52 1986
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	Just a quick point about using the term breeder to refer to
heterosexuals - there are a number of people who would love to have
children, are even desperate to do so, and can't. I suspect that to
call an infertile person a "breeder" to their face would inflict 
unnecessary emotional pain, which while I would doubt that anyone in 
this group would *want* to do that, might do so unintentionally. (Not
unlike all those thoughtless relatives who demand to know if "something's
in the oven" and other crude questions which are none of their business).

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jcpatilla
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