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From: weltyc@rpics.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU and sex
Message-ID: <1028@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 09:35:00 EST
Article-I.D.: rpics.1028
Posted: Tue Mar 24 09:35:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 06:24:51 EST
Organization: RPI Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: spagetti and meatballs, baseball and hotdogs, they all go together


	When I was still in the grips of adolescence and puberty, I
thought that jokes about sex and rape were funny,  I was certainly
an advocate of pornography and I even represented the "Makes Times
Square a Red Light District" side of a debate once.  But I like to
think I've grown up, matured if you will, since then.  After working
with people who have experienced emotional problems due to sexual
offenses (manily rape, but also child pornography), I have seen the
real, human side of the issue. 
	As a volunteer, I started teaching self defense to men and
women at a rape crisis center.  I became interested in why there were
men in my classes, and after a short amount of time I joined a
counseling group.  I could never even begin to describe the feelings
of women who have been through experiences like this, I could try, but
I know it would be inaccurate.  But I can easily empathize with these men
who had to see loved ones (sisters, wifes, and daughters) be abused in
some sexual manner.  The anger and frustration is intense.  It is so
intense that the people who are near them begin to feel the same anger
and frustration (that's my case).
	I doubt that any of you people (MEN) out there who think that
this garbage is funny would laugh after going through it yourself - cry
maybe, smash your terminal maybe - but not laugh.  So climb down off
of your god dammned "censorship is bad" high horses and try to live
with the rest of the people on the planet.  I am sorely dissapointed
that an organization as seemingly noble as the FSF would have the
arrogance to claim this should be distributed with their software.

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Christopher Welty                                 *   *   *   *   *
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