Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (74442)	9/11/2003 2:42:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Jewel, we are miscommunicating again. The switch I was talking about is the switch that tells people when something is appropriate or not. It's the switch that says touching someone's body for diagnostic purposes in the doctor's office is a non-sexual event and touching his wife in their bedroom in exactly the same place is a sexual event and having his body react accordingly. The switch is a natural thing and it works perfectly well for most people most of the time. It is automatic, for normal people.

To: one_less who wrote (74442)	9/11/2003 3:48:43 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

So, You seem to be an advocate of what kholt described as the socio-culturally imposed switching system, in which; women are expected to switch their sexuality on and off and go along with compromising situations. I don't understand that comment at all. Did you misunderstand something? My sexuality wasn't involved, the doctor's was. I was disgusted, and never went back. (In each of the two cases, they were clever, and maintained deniability, as I said, so that's all I could do.) The point was that I didn't give up going to male doctors. My internist now is a male. I know that a doctor's being straight has no bearing on whether he or she will be a good doctor for a member of the opposite sex. My point is that a doctor, or patient, may behave inappropriately, and that is a bad thing. But straight doctors do it, as do straight patients, from time to time. So the whole gay issue where medical care is concerned is weird to me. There's a famous female breast cancer specialist who looks like a lesbian to me. I'd put money on it. But she's very, very good. I can't imagine a woman with breast cancer deciding not to go to the top doctor because the doctor was a lesbian. Make it a hypothetical, because of course I have no absolute knowledge. I also can't imagine the masseur who won't massage gays (or vice versa) getting a referral to the one specialist who has a uniquely successful record in saving the lives, or sight, of people with his just-diagnosed condition turning on his heel for "moral" reasons and going down the street for treatment to the heterosexual who gets poor results. And coming home to his wife and saying, "Dear, I just have to accept death. It's against my morals to be cured by a homosexual!"