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

To: Neocon who wrote (76406)	10/3/2003 12:15:33 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No, it was in a context of massage therapy. There is no sexual intimacy; and if you are describing the manipulation of muscles in a professional capacity as "intimacy" then on what basis is it "distasteful"? If I am getting a massage and the therapist tells me she is finding the intimate contact with my skin distasteful, I will first ask her if I am dirty. If I am, then I can easily shower. I can see how being sweaty and smelly might be distasteful to someone. However, if she means that I am evil or inferior or impure then we have a problem, don't we? As for associating discrimination with its most "lurid manifestations". Why not? When one explores the issue of discrimination one explores it at depth if one so chooses. There are young people who are not even aware that women were not people or that blacks were not people or that millions of Jews and homosexuals were murdered because they were impure and distasteful. Discrimination may (and has) led to such ugly and irreversible consequences, that it ought never to be dismissed lightly or shrugged off casually. Anyway, I'm outta here for the day. Have fun manipulating and directing...