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From: henry@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Forwarded anonymous posting
Message-ID: <1166@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 17:45:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-tril.1166
Posted: Wed Sep 17 17:45:58 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 00:11:13 EDT
References: <397@spdcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: henry@athena.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Organization: The Temple of St. Todd the Incontinent
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Keywords: epistle #2

In article <397@spdcc.UUCP> an anonymous author writes:
>I asked him if people he worked with knew he was gay. He said
>that he had shared that part of himself with a few friends at work.
>I thought that sounded so nice. Share. To me, that was handing out
>ammunition, specifically machine guns and hand grenades. I thought
>"I could never do that." 

Funny ... I think of it as defusing a bad situation.  If the people
around me (in general) didn't know I was gay and someone "found out,"
that other person could use this piece of information to hurt me.  By
being "very" out, this information is no longer useful as a weapon.
People can say "I'll tell your manager that you're a fag" and I'll say
"Go right ahead."  Of course, I *do* work at Project Athena, the GAMIT
employment agency ... 

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