Dear Brian, Mike said what he said, "as classy as a truckstop bathroom, ...and half as pleasant" I called it "bathroom humor" and asked if he used it "with lovers", 'people he wished to humiliate, or all of the above'.
If I loathed gay people then why do I love them? Ask yourself the accusation, before you accuse... You are an irritant in accusing me so tenaciously, but I don't loathe you. Loathe with your own loather Brian, not mine. I'm not sure why you feel I loathe... you seem to be in a real lather about my (lack of) loathing. I don't even half loathe gay people, though I've heard it said 'half a loathe is better than none'! I wish Mike would stop ragging on Glenn, I wish William H. Magill would stop ragging on Glenn and I, and I wish you would stop ragging on Glenn or on me, or on whomsoever does not agree with you. Lots of love Brian. Rick Conrad On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Brian Siano wrote: > You wanted to insult Mike Van Helder, and you did this by insinuating > that he's gay. Clearly, you see homosexuality as something ugly and > shameful. Don't try to torture this into anything but what it is: your > loathing of gay people. > > You may not have liked Mike's line about truckstop bathrooms, but it > wasn't a _slur against gay people_. > > On 10/5/11, Richard Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: >> It was a question - of rhetoric - Brian. Tell the truth, I didn't think >> that you thought there was anything intrinsically slur-ful about >> homosexuality, Brian... and besides I was referring in rhetorical fashion to >> the more sinister and violent forms of homo-erotic cruelty, not to any >> normal or healthy sorts of homo-eroticisms... >> >> Judgement (as beauty and cogency) is also frequently a matter for the 'mind >> of the beholder' caveat! >> >> You stooped to the use of 'gutter-level bigotry' not me. >> >> Mike called Glenn "as classy as a truckstop bathroom, ...and half as >> pleasant" or did you miss that one Brian? >> >> I've referred to Mike's use of "bathroom humor" as being a deviant use of >> the familiar and unworthy of any thing one could call loving response. It, >> unlike Glenn's clever and cogent poem, was unkind, unsubtle, and rather >> banal. It attacked without allowing for feelings or thoughts. >> >> Bill had previously been a bit unfeeling and crude in his 'resigning' but >> slurring statement: "I did not intend to feed the trolls, but their >> incessant, idiotic, incoherent ramblings and constant reiteration of the >> Party Line, tend to grossly offend any thinking person. Therefore, >> goodbye." >>> William H. Magill >>> Block Captain >> 4400 Chestnut Street" >> >> As far as peoples opinions about homosexuality... I did not make a slur >> against the concept, life-style, extant notion(s), or erotic preference. >> Did you? I leave the issue for you to decide, I can't speak for you. I >> have generally preferred the term homo-erotocism as homo-sexuality can tend >> to lead to confusion, and while generativity is certainly not always >> hetero-sexual... "sexual" reproduction in which biological meiosis >> recombination produces a viable zygote seems to have tended quite >> exclusively in the direction of hetero-partnering. >> >> P.S. I assume you are referring to me as 'Rich', though you have never >> known me to use that name, rather: Rick Conrad, or Richard Conrad... Please >> at this time I ask... do not call me Rich, Brian, if you would be so kind. >> :>) >> >> "Can't we all just try to get along" - Rodney King >> >> Rick Conrad >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Brian Siano wrote: >> >>> It's shameful that Rich would leap to slurs about homosexuality. >>> >>> Argue all you want, call each other names all you want, but Rich's >>> gutter-level bigotry is just revolting. >>> >>> On 10/5/11, Richard Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> when you gotta go... you really gotta go... SO GO! >>>> >>>> Do you use your bathroom 'humor' with your lovers too Mike or just those >>>> you >>>> want to make humbled... hmmm, maybe they are the same set of members... >>>> maybe you actually want to both humiliate Glenn and also be his lover... >>>> like the huckleberry dude in the movie Tombstone? >>>> >>> ---- >>> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >>> list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see >>> <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. >> >> > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
