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Ruby and politics and queers and the internet



Lemme be more clear. I went back and read the first paragraph or two,
and realized I hadn't finished a thought. I was saying something about
how I didn't think the gay rights debate was wholly analogous to
something else because (here's what I was getting at) people's very real
needs and rights to get up and be their out, obnoxious selves are often
perceived, sometimes correctly and sometimes not, as being at odds with
the moderate, more-mainstream equal-rights-for-all movement.

As in, some of the members of that movement sort of chafe at the parades
of leathermen and drag queens (and some so-called sympathetic
commentators say "well, they have rights, but they should really accept
the reality of the situation and blah blah blah", which is what Calloway
was alluding to).

Which was what had prompted my rejoinder that, on the contrary, in this
case, it's only Jesse Helms's Senate seat we want, and yes, there is one
(and only one) clearly-defined way to get it: via the election process.
Ergo, anything which helps us complete that process is helpful, and
anything which doesn't, isn't.

Then I went on to argue about the stupid posters. I suppose I'm open to
being convinced that the posters *might* have a galvanizing,
motivational effect on some population segment which would help, but I
have noticed nobody attempting to do so.

Hey, speaking of which: what the fuck is up with the utter silence of
MOVE on this-here newsgroup? I mean, the Triangle is certainly a center
of the anti-Helms/pro-Gantt forces, and the thing *is* called Musicians
Organized for Voter Education--you'd think we'd have some access to the
organizers via a newsgroup called alt.music.chapel-hill. How bout it,
folks? Are you there?

As for Ruby leaving triangle.general--bravo. Many of yr comments are
right-on (though I have to say that I'm surprised it took you so long to
bail. group should be called triangle.pointless.back-and-forth.wanking.
As distinct from alt.music.chapel-hill-pointless-wanking, of course.).

However, I've been a little bit riled up by a column in this week's
Village Voice by some goober who has decided that UseNet is UseLess,
simply because "there's no editorial control to weed out the useless
speech," or something along those lines.

Well, duh. We're a representative democracy because the founding fathers
had more or less the same idea.

However, it's sort of pointless to dismiss a medium because some subset
of it sucks. *I* can't even bring myself to dismiss TV, despite the fact
that most of *it* sucks rocks. After all, there was once The Avengers.
And from what I understand, the Dukes of Hazzard in reruns on the
Nashville Network.

ross I guess we're the Dukes of H of cyberspace grady
-- 
"I wish I could play stand up bass...will somebody teach me..."
                                        --5er
"strap that thing around your neck and stand up.
that's all there is to it."             --3.2.3


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