Xref: utzoo misc.legal:5494 news.admin:3160 soc.women:12224 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!guillory From: guillory@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (guillory stanford s) Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.admin,soc.women Subject: Re: A real sweetheart Message-ID: <4961@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 28 Jul 88 04:56:25 GMT References: <12624@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: guillory@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (guillory stanford s) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 64 In article <12624@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu (Mark Ethan Smith) writes: > >no sense of humor, being a real prig, and sues me. Do you >think that the truth that she or he is, in reality and in fact, a prig, >will serve me as an absolute defense in a harassment suit? If so, >you might consider suing your law school for providing you >with an inadequate education. :-) >--Mark WRONG again Mark. A prig is some subjective term that applies to only a subset of human beings. Calling a person a prig means that you think they are a prig and nothing more. Calling a person a female when they are female means they are half of the world, or as John Lennon sang, "Woman is the other half of the sky." You know, Mark, I don't care what you call yourself, and I don't care what other people call you. What bothers me is that you are getting more and more irrational with each posting. Why don't you take a break from the net, get together with your shrink, and work some things out. If I was as messed up as you, and had the intelligence that you seem to have in your more lucid moments, I would be doing every thing in my power to get my head screwed on straight. I understand that it is hard for you to get a grip on reality when you are drifting so, but hey, give it your best shot! You know, Mark, you should really try to find something to be thankful for in your life. I mean, trained lawyers have viewed your complaints and virtually laughed their heads off on misc.legal, so obviously there are more *IMPORTANT* issues on the legal front. Let me tell you a story, Mark, if I may. I am a young black man. There are places in this country where I cannot go, where I do not DARE tread. The KKK is ever present, awaiting their opportunity to violate my rights in a big way. How do I deal with this!? I am an American, I should not have to deal with this! Welcome to reality, my fellow poster. The world presents adverse conditions, and we have to adapt. If I worried about every person who said something about me, or held a deep hatred for me, I soon be a worried old man! Our time here on Earth is too short to cry about our problems. Do you think you have it worse than the children starving in Africa!? I thank God that I don't. Or maybe it is harder for you to get up in the morning that it is for a quadraplegic? I thank God it isn't for me. Or maybe, just maybe, your life is more of a living hell than it is for an American hostage in Iran? Gee, I really feel for you. I am called a nigger about once a month, on average. I don't get upset, and I don't file lawsuits. You know why, Mark? Because the fools who engage in these cruelties don't define me. *I* define me. Every white person in America could call me nigger until the cows come home. Their name-calling is not going to take my BS in electrical engineering away from me. Nor will it take my M.S.EE away. I am talented, successful, healthy, and so many other good things. And I suspect that you are too, Mark. So, just say to hell with the people who you feel do you wrong. They don't define you, you do! Get on with your life. You know what would be really sad? You wasting the rest of your life bickering on this net, and me sitting here reading every word. Stanford S. Guillory guillory%vdsvax.tcpip@ge-crd.arpa "I am someone! I am everyone! and I will have some fun!"