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This is probably not the answer that you were looking for, but all the
phobias are dictated by fear, as the word says. What is intelligent in
Mark's remark is that he is able to do 1 + 1, i.e. bring the simple into the
complex. Something many of us cannot do any more.



On 3/20/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Fine the way it is, I think: we all know what it means, and what the
> practice is.
>
> Homophobic is an interesting word. I've been thinking about it lately
> because I've been writing about the treatment of gays and lesbians in
> Cuba. It's come to mean simply "doesn't like homosexuals," but it
> incorporates a pop psychology diagnosis, "doesn't like homosexuals
> because they scare him/her" (as if hatred were always so simple). Are
> there any other words so constructed?
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 09:53 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:
> >I have a question or two about these stipulations:
> >1. Most language is gender-biased, and homophobic is a sort of
> >non-word to me. What's wrong with the simple "sexist" based on the
> >analogy with "racist" - or, better, " sexually prejudiced", which
> >covers everything?
> >3. This is a bit confused, with its "related discourses" (huh?) and
> >"ultimately". I have always understood Poetryetc to mean what it
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> >4. It is actually rather difficult sometimes to distinguish "the
> >person's ideas or work" from the person. I suppose "That was a pile
> >of shit, Bob" would be taken quite personally by most Bobs.
> >6. If I use material from the list written by me with my own
> >permission elsewhere, must I indicate that it originally appeared on
> Poetryetc?
> >...Just asking...
> >Martin
> >Joseph Duemer wrote:
> >
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> couple of
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> >>
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> >The art of being civilized is the art of learning to read between
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>