Tuning "It" (OT)

[Avery Todd]

Thanks, Sarah. I'd NEVER swing a tuning hammer at ANYONE! Of course
what do I know. I'm just an old fart! :-)

But thanks for your post. And several others. Includking D.L. Bullock!

Avery

At 02:03 PM 8/16/04, you wrote:
>Hi Janneetah,
>
> > I've always marveled that males
>
><snip>
>
> > He would also learn to appreciate what life in the Man's World is
> > like for the ladies.
>
>Yes, but many men are real gentlemen (emphasis on the "gentle").  I think a
>number of them spoke up on this issue already.  It's not the 95% of the male
>population who won't swing tuning hammers at us that we have to fear.  It's
>the other 5%.  It's because of that 5% that we have web pages like this
>one...
>
>http://www.rememberingourdead.org/#
>
>Perhaps the real bravery is in soberly facing one's own inner beast.  Sadly,
>the people who most need to look through this web page will very likely not
>do so.
>
>Those with the stomach to read through this site should understand that the
>transgender community is very, very tiny, and so this represents a
>shockingly significant percentage of the total population.  The chances of a
>transgendered person being brutally murdered (e.g. from blows to the head
>with a tuning hammer) are substantially higher than, say, dying from a heart
>attack or cancer.  The reader should also be forgiving of the number of
>these victims who were prostitutes.  Unfortunately that was about the only
>"career" left open to many of them.  They could either sell their bodies or
>starve on the streets.  Some choice, in our "kinder, gentler" society that
>will protect these people from neither the employment discrimination that
>puts them on the streets, nor the violence that puts them into the grave.
>
>(Yes, Rob, this is what your cute little story meant to me.)
>
>Peace, I hope,
>Sarah
>
>PS I knew some of these people when they were still alive, at least in the
>same way that I know all of you.  It would be an insult to their memory if I
>did not say something about this most unfortunate thread.
>
>
>
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