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Submitted by mvanhouten on December 08 2000 08:45:41
In reply to So...what you're saying is.... submitted by Triple Q on December 07 2000 13:26:29
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They DO hurt, they do demean and they put people on the defensive. That's because the most effective labels come with lies attached. I'm labeled a "sex offender" yet no one who has sex with me is "offended." You and I know Heather's labels are deceptive, but he "lay" readers swallow it hook, line, and sinker. We have no choice as to whether her lay audience lets the lies work. And we, as a community, always have new members comming in, and the first thing WE have to do for them is expose the lies of the labels they absorbed from the culture. We have to spend much of the energy of our activism explaining to them, over and over, that they are NOT monsters, they are NOT "sex-offenders," their love and relationships are as good (or as wanting) as any other human being's. When our resident busybody uses those offensive terms without bothering to point out the cruel distortions that come with them. She confuses and sets back those who listen to her. Look at the situation of one of her "biggest supporters." You publicly announce that if minors would be given the right to vote, "Barney" would be president. You publicly announce "fuck our history." You dismiss and mock the intelligence of youth, and the intelligence of boy-lover leaders and thinkers that came before you. Unfortunately, you let the derogatory terms effect you. So I guess it is pretty hard NOT to let them. |
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