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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,soc.women,alt.flame,soc.motss
Subject: A reply to 'Queerboy alert' -- long, but worth reading.
Summary: MES lives in the guise of Joe Bigelow
Message-ID: <400@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 01:44:35 GMT
References: <2493@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <381@flatline.UUCP> <715@mit-caf.UUCP>
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
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In article <715@mit-caf.UUCP>, andrew@mit-caf.UUCP (Joe Bigelow) writes:
> In article <381@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
> >In article <2493@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, hooner@athena.mit.edu (Hoon Ko) writes:
> >[Some reasons that a friend of Hoon's didn't like _Broadcast_News_.]
> >
> >> 3. Holly Hunter had to be the grossest female character and
> >>    had no sex appeal whatsoever, a characteristic that
> >>    a major part of the movie revolved around.
> >
> 
> >Wait.  If a female character doesn't have sex appeal then she's gross??
> >
> >How sexist can a person get, anyway?
> >
> Whoah buddy!
> Do I smell an ass kisser or did someone fart?
> ReREAD statement 3==> 'had to be the grossest...and had no sex appeal'
> There is no cause and effect relationship in this sentence.
> I bet this guy tries to score with women by telling them how
> sensitive he is.  Meanwhile, he couldn't get a stiff one unless
> he was tied up with chicken wire and smeared with chopmeat.
> What a fag.
> Joe Bigelow


Ya know, I like it when someone up north makes a good fool of themselves.
Makes me feel that it's not just southerners who are bigoted, sexist
and ignorant. (1/2 :-) at the ignorant southerner joke.)
Out of the replies I've seen, and the mail I've gotten, this is the first
one that attacks me for any reason.

I'm refuse to directly reply to any of the inaccurate and libelous
statements made by Joe Bigelow.  It's not worth my time and your money
to try to 'discuss' anything with someone who obviously knows everything
about me and my personal life/opinions/desires.

I would remind Joe Bigelow of a few things:
1.  Ignorance is no excuse for malicious and personal attacks against anybody
    for any reason.
2.  As the laws are currently interpreted, your statements are libelous.
    Had I the money and/or time I'd love to take you to court in say,
    California, where there would be no sympathy for personal attacks
    against a person based solely on an *assumption* that that person is
    homosexual.
    And with all the readers on usenet, there'd be a good case for
    defamation of character.
3.  I refuse, on intellectual, ethical, and moral grounds, to join
    in juvenile name calling.

What's more, it really saddens me that a student at a school such
as M.I.T. -- considered by most to be one of the highest institutions
of learning in the world -- has students as bigoted and hateful as Joe Bigelow.

fyi:  my girlfriend thinks you're a moron.  :-)
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