On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, michael w yarbrough wrote:
> No one besides me has yet used the homophobic word (on list at least) and
> I used it in reference to your opinion, not you. Specifically, I used it
> in reference to your characterization of Cypher and Etheridge as mere
> children with dolls, completely nonchalant and unconcerned about their
> children. If that characterization wasn't homophobic, it was at least
> cruel.
Having received more context on the passage I referred to above, I retract
my characterization of it as cruel and/or homophobic.
I still smell something of a double standard, and as many queer (and
non-white and female) listers will probably agree, sometimes healthy,
skeptical antennae for such double standards are vital survival tools. I
don't apologize for using them, but regret any undeserved bolts of
lightning they may send forth.
--Michael, mixer of metaphors
