Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border Message-ID: <6865@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 10:04:01 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.6865 Posted: Fri Feb 10 10:04:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:41:40 EST References: <2234@ihldt.UUCP>, <6822@watmath.UUCP>, <274@pyuxss.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 > American women ( as in US) have no problem dancing >together. ...And I've never seen anyone look askance. I think >you (Sophie) overstate the case a bit. Homosexuality is not >assumed when two women dance together. I am very sorry to report that Sophie has NOT overstated the case. A very homophobic feeling has been springing up. I first noticed it with grade school and high school students taunting each other with "faggot", "lezie", etc. It seems to have spread. I am relieved to hear that the whole continent isn't affected. I had assumed it was, because my young brother and sister went to high school in southern Pennsylvania and they seemed to have the same attitudes. I will back off a bit and say that not EVERYONE would assume the women were lesbians but at the very least they would probably get a bit of "teasing" that they were. --from the sssstickkky keyboard of J.A.M. ...!{allegra|decvax}!watmath!jamcmullan