From: Natalie@yabbs
To: laelth@yabbs
Subject: re: PC
Date: Sun Aug 14 08:14:32 1994
i'm sorry, but i'm not goingto change the way i speak just so someone's 
feelings don'tget hurt.  for example, i have an aunt.  she's retarded.  
she is NOT mentally challenged.  she is retarded.  there is no challenge 
there because she does not have the mental faculties to succeed.  i will 
not call black ppl african american because, dammit, they're americans.  i 
don't go around insisting that i be called european american, do i?  no, i 
don't.  and in no way am i anti-gay.  i am very offended that you even 
INSINUATED that about me.  i happen to be bisexual, and while i'm not a 
political person (a fact that got me in trouble more time than i can count 
in my gay/lesbian lit class last winter), i still don't like the idea that 
i can lose my job just cause ihappen to think girls are cool too.  and 
just one more thing.  i think thata lot of feminists are anti-woman.  by 
being anti-man, they are also being anti-woman.  all men are NOT pigs, and 
women have to get some common sense.  you can't go walking around by 
yourself in the middle of the night and expect to be ok...in an ideal 
world, ok, but this is NOT an ideal world...feminists have practically 
brainwashed young women of today into thinking these things, so they go to 
do things that are dangerous and then they get in trouble.  in no way am i 
saying that it's a woman's fault for getting raped/assaulted/whatever, but 
i reserve the right to tell her that she was an idiot for putting herself 
in a dangerous situation.  women have to learn to accept the consequences 
of what they do, as well as men.  feminism (as it seems to me) is trying 
to absolve women of all responsibilites for their actions and placing that 
responsibility on the man.  which is not rght.  everyone has to accept 
their own mistakes and GET ON WITH LIFE.  (and that goes with calling ppl 
(insert ethnic name) Americans.  you're in america now, you're americans.  
get over it.)

my $.02 worth....

natalie
who thinks that PC is a fancy mindgame that is diverting our attention 
from thereal problems in this society