Re: May & Holley

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Just speak your mind. Anyone offended by words must have something to grind
about. I thought it painted a nice accurate picture. 

At 09:16 PM 11/18/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Alex Wang wrote:
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>> > Walker has now become such a consistent homo on the boards, and that's
a true
>> > mystery.
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>> Hi Joe,
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>> I'm sure it wasn't your intention but I think that calling Walker a "homo"
>> on the boards is probably offensive to gay people.
>>
>> What is with Walker and rebounding nowadays, though? It seems like he
>> just doesn't have the desire, because he's still shown the ability when
>> his heart is in it.
>
>Actually yeah I'm aware of your concern and don't discount it as too "PC" or
>whatever. I'm a lot more tolerant in person (I better be!) and believe me,
>virtually everyone my wife and I hang out with is gay (she being a
artist/designer
>for one thing). I'll post this to the list, since you've made an accurate
point and
>kind of made me feel ashamed by busting me. :-) No offense intended. I
applied the
>terms "girlie-man", "homo" and "fruitboy" to refer to a lack of serious
effort on
>the boards. This may sound weak, but I'm not making fun of a lifestyle or
sexual
>orientation, nor could I care less about it.  If you replaced the terms I
casually
>chose with "chink", "nip" or "gook", it would be offensive and sound like
a retard
>had written it. I'm sorry for that.
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