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From: Carolyn Tyjewski <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling Societies
> Ron Amundson wrote in part:
>
> > I don't think either biological or social theories of the 'origin' of
> > homosexuality are very interesting in the context of comparisons with
> > disability issues. We don't ask about the specific cause of a person's
> > impairment
> Ummm We don't?????? Society and the Disabled community DON'T create a
> hierarchy of disability based upon how one BECAME Disabled? ...
...
> Ron, I realize you live in Hawaii but I didn't realize Hawaii was on
another
> planet -- I missed that geography lesson.
Carolyn --
I was responding to a question from Natasha which said:
> Why the need to take sociobiologists' theories seriously in any way
> whatsoever? I ask this seriously, as a recent joiner to this listserv
...
I did not intend "we" to refer to "we on this planet" but rather to "we on
this listserv." Of course I may be wrong about that, too.
Ron
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Ron Amundson
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI 96720
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