From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.bi
Subject: Re: Oprah 11/19
Date: 24 Nov 1992 00:01:15 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Once upon a time, dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells) said:
}In article <1ei2lhINN4dh@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
}(the troglodyte killer) writes:
}}
}}     I strongly believe that this is not so.  My parents are both
}}heterosexual-to-the-hilt and homophobic to boot.  I was pretty
}}much the same 'till I was 17 or so and started making some
}}decisions about my sexuality.  If there's some sort of genetic
}}disposition towards queer sexuality, I'd think it would show up
}}before then or at least show up in my parents (or their parents).
}
}Interesting that you describe both of your parents as homphobic.
}From what my Abnormal Psychology prof said about the topic, when
}a person entertains the thought of having sex with a MOTSS, and it
}appeals to hir, but then hir moral beliefs come stomping in and
}spit out a very powerful "NO!", that person is very likely to be
}homophobic later, because when sie sees MOTSS relationships, a part
}of hir brain is reminded that 1) I am attracted to MOTSS, and 2)
}according to my moral convictions/religious beliefs/etc that is WRONG
}and I will burn in hell for it, so I am uncomfortable looking at it.
}So uncomfortable that I will squash it wherever I see it.
}I'm not saying that your parents are LBG, but it would provide an
}interesting twist.  And from what info I have (admittedly very little)
}about them, it does sound plausible.
}
}*evil chuckle*
 
     8-]  That *is* an amusing thought..  They're both totally 
devout Christians of the Lutheran persuasion, and I never got the 
impression that they were comfortable about sexuality in any 
form..  Only times that they mentioned it was when they told me 
that everything I needed to know about sex was on shelf 8 of my 
father's library (and if I had any questions, look it up there and 
don't bug them), and when my father took 15 minutes after dinner 
and laid down his calm, analytical, objective, logical (and 
absolutely FUCKED) reasoning for why homosexuality was an illness.
     For all I know, my father's workaholism (11 hours a day, 6 
days a week) may be from the sublimation of repressed sexual 
energy.  :-)  
 
>>     Yeah, that and the CO-2 has really turned me off to the
>>place..  :-(  A pity, 'cuz me and Anne were thinking of moving
>>there.
>
>I was too, because it is such a beautiful part of the country.  *pout*
 
     Well, it would've been handy career-wise, but if I could 
possibly get a toehold in Borland (wish wish hope hope) we could 
do just as well in Scotts Valley, CA.  (It'd be a shorter move, 
too.)  (Big hint to any Borland headhunters out there -- Borland 
is the closest thing I have to a Heavenly Afterlife.  There's very 
little I wouldn't do to get put on the C++ Compiler Development 
Team.)
 
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