From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: talk.rape
Subject: Re: The reason for Rage
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:07:32 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <SCG.92Jul22091626@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring) writes:
> 
> 
>>His ranting was that I was homophobic.
> 
> No, it was that the Austin police were homophobic.  Get it straight,
> idjit.

Well, both I and others read it as insinuating I was homophobic. Perhaps
we read it correctly as written, and the author wrote it poorly.
> 
>>(A nice, politically correct word used to slam anyone who does not
>>care about gay issues. [...])
> 
> Actually, I implied that you seem to have some problem with being
> potentially viewed, even if incorrectly, as homosexual.  Why?

That statement says quite clearly the way we read your original post
was, in fact correct.

Why do I not want to be viewed as homosexual? Besides the fact I am not?
I need a reason???


> 
>>As for homosexual rape, that is no different a crime that ordinary
>>rape.
> 
> Then why is it handled differently?

Ask you legislature.

> 
> 
>>But, as there is information out there to indicate that a significant
>>percentage of men who get raped are singled out because they are gay
>>(right or wrong, that perceotion exists) to be the victim of gay rape
>>is to start to have people suspect you are gay.
> 
> Why should I care if people suspect I'm gay?  The simple fact is, I'm
> not gay.  The fact that most people are idiots should not (and will
> not) stand in my way to report a heinous crime against my person.

Yes, but I remember a post about being upset that the police viewed
the mal/male rape as being 'icky'. Let's face it, homosexuals are
discriminated against in employment, promotions, friendship, social
activities, and, in TRYING TO GET WOMEN TO GO OUT WITH THEM!!!

If nothing else, the LAST thing I need is to have women avoid going
out with me for fear I may have caught AIDS the night before. It really
ruins the chances for an intimate interlude.


> 
>>That is why I would not report it.
> 
> In other words, you're afraid of being thought of as gay by idiots.
> Why do you place so much stock in the opinions of idiots?

I do not place much stock in their opinions. As is evident by the fact that
I do not bother to give a damn about the opinions of people on this board about
me.

However, let me ask YOU a question. Would you care if I braodcast to your
employers, co-workers, and friends you'd been bu-fu by another man???
Or, do the opinions of those who can hire and fire you matter on this.

Further, who the hell do you think you are to say it is any of your business to
say I should not care what other people think and I should report a grave
crime??? Would you ever tell a woman that she should ignore all the
reprecussions and report she had been raped???

She: I'd prefer not to report this. I don't need all the hassle.

You: Buck up! Who cares if people will think you are a cheap slut? A crime has
been committed! Go report it! Who cares what other idiots think???

You argument kind of looks hollow there, doesn't it?

Further, I do not care what people think about me as long as it is accurate.
I am arrogent, self-centered, rude, sexually uninhibited, somewhat
chauvanistic, somewhat prejudiced, and lots of other things. I not only
admit to all of that, but I don't care who knows any of that. If
they have a problem with it, it's their problem.

As for having labels placed on me that are untrue, like homo or rapist, I can
live without.

DC