From: amz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: down to a funless sea
Date: 19 Aug 1993 18:15:32 -0400
Organization: fairies in the garden of the bottom
Summary: arguments for the nonexistence of a cabal

in article <stephenaCC0xD8.1Bw@netcom.com> stephena@netcom.com (steve
arrants) follows arne adolphson in responding, oh too briefly, to
melinda shore's having asked:

  >Why is it that the *fun* threads never recycle?

it is probably suspicious to some that *melinda* would have asked this
question and that *arne* would have been the first to echo it.  "oh
yeah, just the fuckin' *cabal* again", these people are muttering,
unaware of the fact that the nonrecycling of fun threads (and its
converse, the regular recycling of an appalling inventory of funless
threads) is irrefutable proof of the nonexistence of a cabal, even a
malicious cabal.  if there were a cabal, it would suppress this junk
on behalf of things with some chance of engaging the intellect,
arousing interest in other people's lives, provoking deep laughter, or
getting readers hot.  even if a cabal wanted to make people's lives
miserable, it would (in the fashion of despotic rulers everywhere) do
what *it* cared about (and, indeed, that would make plenty of people's
lives miserable).  

instead, we go down to this funless sea, where we are marooned on a
desert island with a particularly regrettable set of disks, among them:

 side A: You're an Ignorant, Undiscriminating Boob
 side B: Any Taste is Just as Good as Any Other Taste

 side A: You Benefit from Privileges *You* Don't Even See
 side B: I Worked Hard to Get Where I Am, I Did

 side A: *Those* People Make Life Hard for All the Rest of Us
 side B: You Have a Bad Case of Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia

 side A: Just as I Am, I Chose to Be
 side B: I Couldn't have Changed the Path I'm On

 side A: I'm Not Homosexual, I'm Gay (But You Sound Like a Homosexual)
 side B: We're All Queers Together

(you could probably add a few more.)

meanwhile, the food threads die down almost immediately, and it's
been *years* since we had a good dildo discussion.  and these are
topics of interest to almost everyone.

nuance has also been in short supply.  a cabal of queers would never
put up with that.

premise: banality.  conclusion: caballessness.  it's a natural law.

arnold, going back to whirring up pesto and licking jacques

