sdo@brunix.UUCP (Scott Oaks) (09/25/84)
I tried something new this morning when I read my news: I tried to find in Ardnt's latest group of postings a glimmer of truth. And there is was: running through his latest diatribe is the thought that we're not getting our message across to straight society. Really Ken? None of us had noticed. We had all begun to think long ago that straight society had a fair perspective on our lifestyles. That's why we're always so calm. The amount of irony in hearing Ken Ardnt inform us that we're not getting our message across is almost too much to bear. And if the net is a microcosm of the world, it's not altogether surprising: no matter that we all argue that homosexuality and promiscuity are not equated, that almost all of us disassociate ourselves from groups like NAMBLA, that despite all the problems we face we enjoy being gay, that we dispell every myth of homosexuality which comes over the network, and that despite numerous attempts to do so, no one has been able to post an argument against homosexuality that does not have as its root some ill-defined non-universal personal concept of God (or, alternatively, Right)--none of this seems to matter to Ardnt and his followers who continue blithely on as if their arguments made sense and were ignored. The question is not whether or not the message is there, since it obviously is. The question is whether certain members of society can be expected to listen. And apparently the answer is no. Scott Oaks "And I take the sardines. No, I leave the sardines. No--I take the sardines." "No, love, you leave the sardines and you take the newspaper."