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> Steve Kudlak wrote:
>
> > This is a touchy issue, because if one woman said: "Don't do that", it might
> > actually stop things. Or something like" Or it's not worth fight over...."
> > Instead they back out of the way and let the guys duke it out.
>
> Or /she/ might get hit. Have you thought about /why/ they (we) back out of the
> way? Because we're at least as scared as the guys.
>
> > Only difference I think is that it IS FAIR FOR ME TO ASK THEM TO ACCEPT MY
> > CLOTHING. I may joke about "suits" but they are no less a human being. I only
> > ask the same. To me it seems they are glorifying stupidity. But the convenient
> > way is to remove myself from it and do to some place better. It is the never
> > teach a pig to sing thing...
>
> It is the never-teach-a-pig-to-sing thing.
>
> Have you considered the possibility that they might be /afraid/ of you?
> Afraid of the symbolism of your appearance, perhaps.
> Afraid of your intellect, perhqps?
> Afraid of the freedom-to-wear-what-you-wish?
>
> These are all possible. You have mentioned that you dress as a biker - well,
> I tend to be afraid of people who dress as bikers, because my experience is
> that I am more likely to be (physically) hurt by a biker than I am to be hurt
> by a suit.
>
> I have been told by a friend that she was intimidated by my reputation as
> an intellectual - she thought I'd be patronising, that we'd have nothing to
> talk about, that the kind of thing that interests her would bore me silly.
> Now, I don't /agree/ with that, but I have to accept that that viewpoint
> exists.
>
> And there's a LOT of people who really hate wearing ties and smart clothes.
> Some of them envy people who can get away without it. So some of what you're
> experiencing may be envy - not just prejudice.
>
> Jenn V.
> --
> Humans are the only species to feed and house entirely separate species
> for no reason other than the pleasure of their company. Why?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/
>
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Well I am actually tall and big like a abiker. I certainly don't dress that way.. I
am just too tired to deal with people's prehudices. A person who hates balcks
sates: "Blacka re more likely to attack and rob him." Does that make him rigjht?
It is fair for me to ask people to accept me as me. To accept others maile or female
without prejudice.. Without regard to physical appearance that is all I ask for
myself and others be thery fema.le, male, fat transgendered that is all I am saying.
IT IS ECERYONE"S ALIOENATION. Remrember the r the lhgal mazim. Resist ther
beginimgs. Oh "balacks look scary....The wollds is too mean to make it worse.
Pleanty are aliienated for those reasons it is not just mr. I wih to hsbr prople
sccpted npt prejudrfrd. It is a sad smf dovlrmomg dsuy when thsat is done/ Qiick
Some one send me an XXL T-shirt with a kitty on it. That might help.
Hasve fun,
Sends Steve
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