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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:57:36 GMT
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Hello!
> No other group
> is so easily overlooked (intentionally or not) in everyday life.
So why whould one (intentionally or not) _look_ at them?
> You can't walk
> up to a black man and think, "This person is white," without knowing that you're
> lying to yourself. Black people are black, and white people are white
There's no reason that I actually _think_ "this person is black" It's just how a
person is, it's obvious, it's not a matter of must-think-about.
I don't look at a random person and think "hm, this guy could have diabetes.",
either. That's none of my business (unless I'm a doctor and the situation is a
medical inspection). So why whould I ought to know if a person is straight or
gay? (Yes, I can imagine situations when i would want to know if a person is
straight or gay but those situations are not what Lugnet is for in the first
place.)
> straight is the assumed standard, so unless a person makes a point of telling
> you their sexual orientation (either by stating it outright, or by making it
> unignorably blatantly clear through Jack McFarland-esque behavior), it's very
> easy to assume they're all straight.
It's also the assumed standard not to have diabetes.
> > And by the way, for those of you who like political correctness
That's certainly not me ;)
Bye
Jojo
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| (...) Johannes, I think you stated yourself very well on these points. The issue that underlies this is that these people want you to know they are gay - they don't want you to assume the are not because they are offended at being assumed to be gay (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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