Today's Topics:
silence is golden...
The perils of being PC
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From: Tim O'Connor <toc@portland.digitalk.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:45:09 PST
Subject: silence is golden...
REGARDING silence is golden...
... but "Bob" still sees.
Silence can be to slack what slack can be to $20.
Prove it to yourself. Make your next party a speech deprivation party.
Having experienced such in the past I can vouch for it as a way to eliminate
Pink guests early on for an evening of true slack. Make no bones about it,
tell people in advance. Give them time to prepare for the experience. You
may even allow music to played, but allow no words in the music. You'll be
amazed at the communication which gushes forth, even between previously
total strangers, when the barrier of speech is eliminated. You'll want to do
it again and again!
If this works favorably you may wish to try the Identity Deprivation party.
Tell no one about this. Hie yourself to your nearest xerox machine with a
nice picture of "Bob". Blow it up to human proportions and make a hundred
copies (depending on expected attendance, of course, a few hundred may be
appropriate in college towns). Cover the face of each guest as they enter
and allow them to never take it off, even in the supposed privacy of your
bathroom. Eye holes are optional and you may wish to let each guest make
this choice.
The daring host or hostess may wish to combine the two above suggestions but
bear in mind that slack can reach critical mass and the saucers aren't due
to land just yet...
where angels fear to tread,
to'c
("neither reverred, sainted, nor holy be" - Prester Mo 5:31-32)
-- "A typical long haired half mad computer programmer on a typical computer keyboard with odd toys scattered liberally about."------------------------------
Message-Id: <9208171401.AA04005@server.dco.dec.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 10:01:26 EDT From: 17-Aug-1992 0959 <berg@begin.enet.dec.com> To: dobbs@begin.enet.dec.com Subject: The perils of being PC
Paraphrased from the July 1, 1992 issue of "The Chronicle of Higher Education."
Women's-Studies Group, Hoping to Heal Wounds, Finds More Conflict
This year's annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association was supposed to heal fractures that crippled the organization...
Within half an hour of the opening of the conference ... the keynote speaker had offended lesbian women by making what were described as heterosexist remarks. Other women complained that a white women should not have been selected to start the conference...
Then meeting organizers apologized to Jewish conferees who had been inconvenienced by the Friday-night session...
Later that evening, some eco-feminists ... complained that every meal served at the conference included meat.
Finally, one conferee complained that participants should be asked to forgo hair spray and perfume, which allergy sufferers might find irritating.
Said Ms. Wilma Boddie-Beaman of NWSA's steering committee, "If I had my wish, we would stop comparing ourselves to other organizations. We're different."
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