07-31-2003, 05:28 AM
I was on point. I just took a roundabout way to it.
Women fought to get rights equal to men. They saw the exclusive men's clubs, the all-boys networks, etc.
When they finally got equal legal footing, they turned around and created women's only groups, and movements designed to further the interests of women, to the exclusion (obviously) of men.
Blacks fought to get equality, to be treated the same as whites. To sit in the same restaurants, drink from the same fountains, attend the same schools.
Then they turned around, and formed groups, stores, businesses, schools, designed primarily to cater the interests of blacks, mostly to the exclusion of everyone else.
Every group that comes along wants to be "part of the mainstream", but never to the point where their culture or way of life is absorbed to the point of not being theirs anymore.
This gay school is just another example.
EDIT:
Would some Star Trek expert care to use a "Borg" analogy, to show how assimilation and sameness are not something easily acceptable in human society?
Women fought to get rights equal to men. They saw the exclusive men's clubs, the all-boys networks, etc.
When they finally got equal legal footing, they turned around and created women's only groups, and movements designed to further the interests of women, to the exclusion (obviously) of men.
Blacks fought to get equality, to be treated the same as whites. To sit in the same restaurants, drink from the same fountains, attend the same schools.
Then they turned around, and formed groups, stores, businesses, schools, designed primarily to cater the interests of blacks, mostly to the exclusion of everyone else.
Every group that comes along wants to be "part of the mainstream", but never to the point where their culture or way of life is absorbed to the point of not being theirs anymore.
This gay school is just another example.
EDIT:
Quote:I never once said there weren't distinctions in the cultures, and I don't give a flying rat's yambag what anyone's trying to do with any culture.Then you may have missed the whole reason why this school is being formed. As they get accepted, they don't want their gayness to be just another "quirk" in the great American culture.
We also have Italian sections, a \"Chinatown\", Jamaican areas, Greek infestations, FRENCH dungheaps. Neither here nor there.
Would some Star Trek expert care to use a "Borg" analogy, to show how assimilation and sameness are not something easily acceptable in human society?
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