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Subject: 
Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:31:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > 
> > > I take that comment I made about "no homophobic remarks" earlier in the
> > > thread back.
> > 
> > Are you going to deny that the average heterosexual finds the thought of gay
> > sex repulsive?  I've heard the same sentiment from (non-bi) gay men about
> > hetero-sex!  And this has nothing to do with a pathologically diagnosed
> > phobia, so give the epithet "homophobe" a rest.
> > 
> > [JOHN]
> 
> I heartily dislike accusations like homophobe or racist at the mere hint of
> disagreement - it is a dishonest form of argument by attack and intimidation.
> I don't use the words cheaply, in part so that when I do say it carries more
> weight.
> 
> You have given a different emphasize to you statement above than you did
> originally: you originally said that heteros find gay's behaviour repulsive.
> I'm not interested in sexual activity with men - if you want to call that
> "repulsed", so be it.  But that is not the same thing as finding what they do
> between themselves as repulsive.
> 
> 
> -->Bruce<--

I'm kinda with Bruce o nthis one--I mean there are those who eat oysters.
Personally, I find for my dietary pleasures oysters ranking pretty much down
there with mud--For myself, me eating oysters is repulsive.  I have, on the
other hand, been to many shin-dings where oysters were served and I didn't
really notice others partaking.  Is much like beer--I find beer to be repugnant
to my taste buds--makes me want to throw up just 'cause of the taste.  But I
don't notice, or even care to notice that all my friends love beer.

Now sex, imho, isn't a 'spectator sport' (though I'm sure the exhibitionists
think it is), so I don't frequent places and parties where explicit sexual
contact is displayed openly.  That's just the kind of crowd I choose to hang
around.  That said, whilst walking by the lake the other day, there were a few
couples, out of the various hundreds of couples I passed during my walkabout,
that were holding hands and, *gasp!*, were the same sex!!

Whatever.

I hope someday that these occurances become so 'background noise that they won't
even be worth mentioning in a little ancedote like this...

Dave K



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  Re: Lavender Brick Society
 
(...) No, they think it's performance art. Voyeurs think it's a spectator sport. (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Lavender Brick Society
 
(...) I heartily dislike accusations like homophobe or racist at the mere hint of disagreement - it is a dishonest form of argument by attack and intimidation. I don't use the words cheaply, in part so that when I do say it carries more weight. You (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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