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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Nov 1999.
Re: Warning at bath...

Re: Warning at bath...

Dave Bird <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:5FM...@xemu.demon.co.uk...
> In article<383f7422@206.103.97.91>, JRO <ogl...@mail.fullnet.net-
> remove> writes:
> >Jay C the presbyter <Joe...@postYOURmasterBRA.co.uk> wrote in message news:Z3b7PFA
> >3ps...@eidosnet.co.uk...
> >> I think this newsgroup as JRO pointed out is getting a little
> >> homophobic.
> >>
> >
> >
> >homo - The generic name for a species o bipedal, erect, large-brained hominids,
> >now
> >       represented only by modern man. 2; Same.
> >
> >phobia - an exaggerated and persistant dread or aversion to; strong aversion or
> >dislike.
> >
> >
> >homophobia - "man aversion".
>
>
>  Uhunh.  The whole coinage is a bit of a bodge up.  First because the
>  author of it has taken the prefix "homo-" to imply the whole word
>  homosexual, and second because that word should more properly have
>  been homeo-sexual (homeo = same,  sex = gender, a person attracted
>  to the same gender).
>
>  But I'm sure you know what it means:  homophobic, one with a fear
>  or hatred against people attracted to the same gender; xenophobic,
>  one with a fear or hatred against people of other races and
>  nationalities.  Two forms of bigotry.



Oh... A Sodomite. So, this newsgroup is becoming Sodo-phobic.
That's nice.

JRO

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Subject: Re: Warning at bath...
Date: 1999/11/28
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