From: shore@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: The Harrassing Phone Calls Can Stop NOW!
Summary: This sporting life
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:10:15 GMT

In article <szpndcp.phil@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
|From the SJMN (News of the Weird):

|    The Iowa Employment Appeal Board ruled in April that a former
|    security guard was qualified for unemployment benefits even though
|    he was fired. Kay Stone, 55, was a night guard at a convenience store
|    until a fight broke out one night, whereupon he ran and hid in a walk-in
|    cooler. Riuled the board, "Incompettence in a position is not (a
|    disqualification)."

|To be nasty, brutal, and truthful, if you are anything in person like
|your posts, I can understand why you seek the coercive force of law to
|get what you want.

As usual, Phool, this is completely irrelevant.  The 
purpose behind non-discrimination laws is to protect people
who *are* doing their jobs from arbitrary treatment based
on factors unrelated to job performance, ability to pay
rent and maintain a property, and so on.  Duh.  

Like many, many other gay people, I have in the past lost a
job because of my sexual orientation.  At the time I was
fired I was getting glowing performance reviews, letters of
commendation from the organization's board of directors,
and other similar organizations around the state were
modelling their programs after ones I had established in
Tompkins County, so there's little reason to believe that
competence entered into the picture (in fact, the guy who
fired me referred to me as a 'good nigger').  Furthermore,
this clueless bastard didn't even know I was a lesbian
until another person told him, so there was certainly no
question of my 'flaunting it' at the office (still wearing
your wedding ring, Phool?).  The guy who fired me was fired
himself following an investigation, but by that time I had
changed careers.

And from everything I hear, if I were you I'd be plenty
grateful indeed for those laws protecting the incompetent.

|Well, I don't make my denouncements public. In July of 1991, when
|a (presume homosexual) posted the "boys and a pony .gif" to a.b.p.e., with
|obvious underage boys, i immediately emailed a complaint to him.
|the guy worked at the same company. when he ignored it, i went
|thru the chain of command.

Again, completely irrelevant.  The questions remain:  what
are you doing about heterosexual pederasts posting pictures
of underage girls to apbe?  When will you apologize for
heterosexual fashion fraud?  If you're going to demand that
all gay people consider ourselves responsible for NAMBLA, 
symmetry requires that all heterosexuals be held for all
the evils ever committed by any heterosexual, anywhere.  So
much for individual responsibility, eh Phool?  Why don't
you go over and stand next to Cretin in the "Not a libertarian
but plays one on the net" line.

And by the way, nice job deleting soc.motss from the newsgroups
line and then suggesting that my looks may not be pleasing
(and how, uh, male to think that what I look like has any
relevance, anyway).  But, hey, for all my other faults, at
least my nose looks like a nose.
-- 
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
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