[13414] in APO-L
Re: WHO AM i AND WHAT AM i DOING
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (timebomb)
Thu Dec 14 10:08:16 1995
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 09:07:45 -0600
Reply-To: timebomb <timebomb@POLARISTEL.NET>
From: timebomb <timebomb@POLARISTEL.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Dan W. Baldwin wrote:
Over 24 hours have passed since I received the message from Dan Baldwin, so
I have had some time to cool down. If anything in the following seems like
a flame, I want to apologize in advance, it is not meant to, but I am still
slightly angered by his letter.
In his letter he stated that he wishes to start an APO chapter to show
people that not everybody is a psycopathic killer, transvestite, or anything
else. (I don't have his exact words in front of me, and I apologize for
that) I will not touch the killer part, but the transvestite part gets to me.
I have several friends who are cross-dressers. Yes, they are men who wear
women's clothings. These people are not weird, they are not warped, they
are just like other people. The only difference is that they cross-dress.
I would be missing out on some very good friendships if I said, "Gee, you
wear women's clothing, sorry, I won't be your friend." One time when I was
over helping a friend, his partner and I sat down for dinner, waiting for
him to return. He came out of the bedroom wearing a woman's housecoat. It
was funny, but he was comfortable in it, so who am I to question.
I would hope that APO would be able, by this time, to accept people who
don't damage, harm, or otherwise degrade people regardless of "dressing habits"
Off my soapbox, back to the trenches.
Tom Backus
Alumni - Phi Gamma - Texas Lutheran College, Seguin Texas, (Home of the
world's largest pecan) 1985 - 1989.
Life Member
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