At 7:23 AM -0500 1/14/04, Kenneth Campbell wrote:
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:23:26 -0500
>From: Kenneth Campbell <kkc at sympatico.ca>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry day...
>To: furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
>Reply-to: kkc at sympatico.ca
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>Original-recipient: rfc822;furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
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>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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