Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00468)

Just Alexis/Alexei on TI !!!!!!!

At 01:41 PM 8/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Jake wrote:
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>>     As the apparently personal letter to you referred to was posted on
>Theos-
>>talk and he doesn't mention a wife/companion, I wonder why  you call
Marshall
>>Heminway III ("SutratmaN")  "him/her".  Unless I'm misreading, its a rather
>>nasty thing to do isn't it?
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>Why in this great world of pies and ice cream is it a nasty thing to do -
>referring to someone as him/her if one is not sure?  I use the nickname
>"Rilke" who is a guy, but I am a girl - who would know?  Kym (Kim) is a
>common male name for those of Asian background. Besides, for someone like
>Dallas who utilizes the male pronoun way too often I was right pleased to
>see a 'him/her' in one of his posts.
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>>        I tried seeing if he was on AOL, but got "no such screen-name" -
>so he
>>may have cancelled it after your post revealing his anonymity - which I
don't
>>much care for, but guess is his right.  A rather strange thing to
motivations
>>all around.
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>It doesn't appear to me that Dallas was the one who revealed Marshall
>Heminway (Hemingway?) III's real identity.  Looks like it came from the
>author, rather than the replier.  And most of us often pretend we are
>something we are not - and for some of us, that is a good thing.
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>Let's not get our panties bunched without further look-sees.
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>>               -  Jake J
>>            ".... to defend those unjustly accused (or hasseled)"
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>Well, whaddya know - me too.  (although I'm assuming that by "hasseled" you
>mean "hassled.")
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>Kym
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