| From: | mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater) |
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| Subject: | Re: Strange characters |
| Date: | Mon, 13 May 1996 07:57:22 -0500 |
>I can only assume that Ms. Dwight went through
>her surgery and subsequent therapy in a shadow clinic.
Why? Whats to say that she did it all above board and the UCAS gummint
still refused to recognize her as legal citizin Andrea Dwight?
>>Has anyone else had any wierd characters like this.
>
>Hm. Something in me just doesn't like the term "weird" applied to a
>transgendered person. Maybe I've known one too many and found them to be
>nice, normal people in most senses, with certainly more centeredness and
>more sense of self than most people have. I'm not trying to flame here, but
>I have to ask this: Did you do any research on transgendering before you
>worked up this character?
>
Wow. Thats way overly sensitive. I think he meant "weird" as in "I would
never have though of anything like this." Did you think, perhaps, that this
was one persons attempt to play a female character with a reason for being
in the shadows? I'm not flaming you for calling for sensitivity, but I
think you should realize that perhaps just because a mention of
transgenderness was made, it wasn't a slap at it.
Before you ran a troll last time, did you do research on racially oppressed
groups?
Mike Broadwater
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
"You only need to things in this world. WD40 to make things go, and duct
tape to make them stop."
