[net.motss] What you say as opposed to what you mean.

fisher@dssdev.DEC (Gerry Fisher --- Terminally Inane) (02/21/86)

Andy Gerber:

> In none of my past postings have I sad ANYTHING
> against gay men who prefer to act in a certain way.  I have just been
> making a call to notice the rest of us.

Thanks, Andy.  I think that your position is finally clear.  Most of 
us who objected knew what you *wanted* to say, but objected because 
we felt that you didn't say it very well.  I think that most of us 
agree that "you are who you are," whether it be effeminate, butch, and 
for most of us, any combination of both depending on the situation.

A request: if people want to continue to talk about effeminate males 
(gay, straight, or bi), can we try to make a distinction between 
*effeminacy* and *camping*.  In my opionion, they are two different 
things.  If we replace the word "effeminacy" with "camping" in a lot 
of the "all gays aren't like this" arguments, we might have an 
interested topic.

Any thoughts?

			Gerry Fisher
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