[4359] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: selling my soul
adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 27 04:47:51 1994
Now, in response to Ms. Stickgold-Sarah's post:
- adwright, I'm not going to tell you to shut up.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
- I am, however, going to
- say a couple things I'd like you to think about.
-
- I was raised in a communal household in Cambridge by a bunch of, er,
- well, pinko socialist radical feminist left-wing weirdo draft-dodging
- intellectual queer-lovers. I went on my first protest march when I was
- less than a year old; I helped organize a walkout in my school when we
- bombed Iraq; I've worked and argued for feminism and I'm bringing, so
- far as I know, the first flaming queer queen into SIPB. My father
- marched with Martin Luther King; my mother worked in a free school,
- worked for Pat Schroeder's presidential campaign (do you even know the
- name, Andrew?), was a midwife for ten years. Of my housemates one family
- spent a year in Nicaragua working with the schools and helping to build
- up cities the US forces there had pulled down; another couple is now in
- Chile giving grants to clinics working on reproductive freedom for
- women; one is working on creating on a truly egalitarian, non-classist,
- non-sexist interpretation of Judaism, and she's damn well known for it;
- a lot of 'em have been arrested for protesting one military action or
- another. I can't begin to list what they've done.
I think all the above are excellent, dammit. And, I'm glad for you, that
you were fortunate enough to be brought up in such an environment.
- But they've done a hell of a lot more for civil rights, for feminism,
- for disarmament, for everything you say you care for than you have.
I don't dispute that. And I respect and admire them for it. And I respect
your efforts, as well.
But, I don't respect your lambasting me here, for this. It's just so petty.
And, as for my not having done anything activistic, well maybe I just haven't
decided what I want to do yet, and what I will accomplish the most doing.
- You're a sophomore at MIT and you live at Next House.
Well, fuck me, I live at Next fucking House. I guess I'm not worth my shit
in gold, then, am I. Maybe I should move to Bexley just to prove to you how
good a person I really am. Or to Fenway House, or some other commonly-held
quote-liberal place of residence.
Hey, I'm not stuck on Next House. I get out whenever I can. But that's
beside any point.
- So what I want to know is
-
- WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU GET OFF
Same place you got off.
- SPEWING YOUR OBSCENE,
What's obscenity?
- APATHETIC,
Yeah, right. You know me so goddamn well. And my post is just steeped in
apathy, yeah, right.
- OFFENSIVE,
Did I ruffle your fucking feathers? How the hell did I do that? You're
supposed to be the big liberal free-thinking one. What the hell happened?
- GODDAMN
Oh, shit, you said "GODDAMN". Ought I be offended?
- USELESS
Yeah, it's all useless, ain't it all? We ought to every one of us just sit
down in a little corner and shuddup and not never say nothing to nobody, to
never-ever offend nobody, yes?
Well, not every one of us. I mean, certainly hackers are exempt, yeah?
And members of SIPB, or some other accepted club? If you're not a soshe,
then sit down and shut up. That's how it goes, hey?
- SHIT
You do a good shitting-job yourself, I might add.
- ALL OVER THE REST OF US? SHUT YOUR MOUTH,
What's all this censorious crap coming from you?
- LEARN SOME REAL GODDAMN WORDS,
Maybe you mean "jargon".
- AND GO OUT AND MAKE A FUCKING DIFFERENCE. UNTIL THEN, GET OUT OF MY FACE,
- YOU SPOILED LITTLE BABY.
Shit, maybe I had you wrongly-pegged. Maybe beneath and behind all the
liberal activism and ideals, you're just another ass-hole.
Who knew?
