Re: [Goanet] Are Goans Homophobe/response to Mario
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Hi Mario, I think you could end this argument by simply clarifying what "stuffing it in your face" would involve. Most people seem to have interpreted it as, you support homosexuality as long as you dont see homosexuals displaying affection in public. If that is true and you have the same position on heterosexuals displaying affection in public, then no one can accuse you of being a homophobe. I for one interpreted it as, you have no problem with homosexuals as long as they don't hit on you... :)) Fair enough, I guess. Regards Sunith Velho ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Are Goans Homophobe?/response to Mario
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. On Wed Sep 20 10:08:40 PDT 2006, Carvalho wrote: > Dear Darling Bosco, > > It could be that I jumped the gun on Dominic (no puns here) but in > all my years as a Goan, I've never heard this word used. If indeed > this is a Goan word to describe homosexuality, then how would one > describe heterosexuality? Potmarob? Because all you can see protruding > from Goan men, are their ample "pots". :)) Selma RESPONSE: For starters shall we please follow Captain Morgan's filosawphee - What happens below the deck, STAYS below the deck! You have more than jumped the gun on this one. Besides your gaffe in the earlier message, you have now acknowledged that you know all the Konkani words there are to know. Viva !! A slug of Captain Morgan's to that. Secondly you are forcefully shoving Domnic into the company of your off-key but soloist brass player - who does the fingering and blowing without any help. Domnic's talent is writing, with sincerity I might add. He is no brass player. Thirdly, I don't know which Goan men you were looking at when you saw those "pots". Captain Morgan and his crew have labored to carry around a chiselled 6-pack. Let Konkani education - words, grammar, script run perennially. Best - Bosco PS. In all my years as a Goan, I never knew there was a place called Kamanwada in Goa ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Are Goans Homophobe?/response to Mario
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dear Darling Bosco, It could be that I jumped the gun on Dominic (no puns here) but in all my years as a Goan, I've never heard this word used. If indeed this is a Goan word to describe homosexuality, then how would one describe heterosexuality? Potmarob? Because all you can see protruding from Goan men, are their ample "pots". :)) Selma --- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your post and that of Dominic Fernandes, to me > reeks of homophobia. > > RESPONSE: From Webster: > > One entry found for homophobia. > > Function: noun > : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination > against homosexuality or > homosexuals > > Kevin enquired if there was a Konkani word for > Homosexual / Homosexuality. > Domnic Fernandes provided a word that he believes > fits the terminology. Now > you state his post is homophobic ? What is your > rationale ? Why condemn > Domnic's post ? It would have been appropriate if > you had provided a > translated word(s) instead of thrusting an > undesirable halo on Domnic's post. > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Are Goans Homophobe?/response to Mario
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. On Tue Sep 19 21:01:23 PDT 2006, Carvalho carvalho_sel at yahoo.com wrote: > Your post and that of Dominic Fernandes, to me reeks of homophobia. RESPONSE: From Webster: One entry found for homophobia. Function: noun : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals Kevin enquired if there was a Konkani word for Homosexual / Homosexuality. Domnic Fernandes provided a word that he believes fits the terminology. Now you state his post is homophobic ? What is your rationale ? Why condemn Domnic's post ? It would have been appropriate if you had provided a translated word(s) instead of thrusting an undesirable halo on Domnic's post. It is true that some societies have become gay-friendly (for want of a better word) and we have assimilated homosexuality as part of our ideology. Canada is at the forefront of gay rights as Kevin earlier explained to the angst of the Holy See. - Bosco Toronto, CA ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Are Goans Homophobe?/response to Mario
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dear Mario, Why do I detect an undertone of sarcasm in your post? If not, why else would "beacon of hope" be in inverted commas in your message. Your post and that of Dominic Fernandes, to me reeks of homophobia. I don't pretend to understand homosexuality but having known so many homosexual men, some of whom I consider very good friends, I don't sit in judgment of it. What goes on between two consenting adults is their own business. Selma - --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario responds: > > > As with private religious beliefs I have no problems > with what consenting adults of any gender or > cdombination of genders do in private as long as > they > eschew stuffing it in my face. > > > I'm so glad that Kevin and Selma are ecstatic that > Wendell has been a "beacon of hope" for gays in Goa. > > I, too, am glad for all of them, as it must be > difficult to be gay in straight-laced Goa. > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
