AIDS and the Swedish Stewardess

[Doug Millison]

It can still be worthwhile to point out ignorance or cruelty and not just
let it become part of the woodwork. (We do take great pains to eliminate
disease, after all, rather than just tolerate it because it's there and
it's like that.)  In the real world, sometimes, we use another word for the
kind of ugly stuff that too often masquerades as discourse on the Internet
-- print it out, put in an envelope, stamp it and you've got hate mail.

Keeping a civil tongue,
Doug

At 4:16 PM 6/13/97, Henry Musikar wrote:
>Kim and anyone else unfamiliar with mittelwerk - mw is not an
>acquired taste, ie you either enjoy him/her or ya don't. (I
>personally don't. If I'm looking for sophomoric, mis-anthropic/gynist
>"intellectual" rantings, I just turn to the hard rock station and
>get'em with music.) Filter or ignore, but why bother responding.
>
>On 13 Jun 97 at 8:42, Kim L. Serkes <kls at newmediacenters.org> wrote:
>
>> At 2:50 PM -0400 6/12/97, Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >and i do know (from experience) that sometimes it's possible that, say, a
>> >male Swedish stewardess, on a holdover in Zaire, may be prone to
>>popping just
>> >a mite too many 'ludes and, wandering off into the jungle, not see fit
>>to ask
>> >certain essential moral questions about himself when his glittering eyes
>> >adjust to the darkness, and he finds that the pleasantly bared
>>monkey-butt he
>> >is staring at has elicited a forbidden twinge.
>> >
>>
>> >From experience, eh? Were you the "male Swedish stewardess" or the monkey?
>>
>> Jeezus. How many mindless stereotypes can we cram in to one posting?
>
>AsB4,
>Henry Musikar
>
>Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
>Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
>DON'T PANIC! -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>What, me worry? -- A. E. Newman

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