I was saying how hard it was to "come out" in what I wrote. My memories of the pain my beloved felt is none of her business.
Ken.
-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Campbell [mailto:kkc at sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:23 AM To: furuhashi.1 at osu.edu Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry day...
No, yer missing the point.
I just "came out."
Ken.
>You are missing the point. There is a world of difference between
>"outing" and "coming out." Outing is what you do to others; coming
>out is what you do for yourself.
>
>"I'm Not Sorry Day" is for women who have had an abortion and do not
>feel sorry, not a day for men who can't have an abortion, women who
>have never had an abortion, women who do not want to have an
>abortion, or women who feel sorry about having had an abortion.
>
>Just as homosexuals who feel sorry about their homosexual feelings
>and experiences stay in the closet, women who feel sorry about having
>had an abortion stay in the closet.
>
>Those who don't feel sorry, be they queer folks or women who have had
>an abortion, can come out of the closet.
>
>Folks coming out as gay men and lesbians has helped to make society
>less homophobic and heterosexist in the long term, though some
>individuals who came out suffered backlashes in the short term.
>Women coming out as women who have had an abortion should help make
>society less abortion-phobic, especially in that women who have had
>an abortion outnumber self-identified GLBT folks.
>
>The point is to break the silence.
>
>Silence = Death.
>--
>Yoshie
>
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