obsenities/offense

[Julia Frugoli]

I just read my morning mail and I think I need to preface my cut and 
paste a bit more!  The person who pointed out to me, while reading over 
my shoulder, that lebian is not an expletive, and I both agree with most 
of the orignal post and thought it added a great deal to the discussion.  
And I'm sorry I overlooked the part about the email address.  I just 
found it funny in light of the discussion about what offends people that 
I had never thought about lesbian used as an expletive being offensive, 
but because the person reading over my shoulder is gay, he was quite 
offended by it.

That's all I was trying to say-that I for one have to think more about 
the message beneath the message (as is obvious from the replies-I never 
thought of myself as nasty and critical of all women trying to suceed-in 
fact I just dropped off another newsgroup for women in science because I 
felt that one was overly nasty).  So please accept my apolgies if I 
offended you-I enjoyed your post, and my cut and paste was NOT meant as 
a rebuttal, but as food for thought.
Julia Frugoli
Dartmouth College

visiting grad student at
Texas A&M University
Department of Biological Sciences
College Station, TX 77843
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