Word: grunwald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grunwald is so resolute in his conviction that I'm truly dumb that he makes himself look so. He refers to a piece I wrote on behalf of AALARM about last month's glorious Coming Out Day in which I said, "for AALARM our actions represent our lives. For BGLSA it is just another extracurricular activity." Does that make any sense to you? If it does, pay a visit to a local psychiatrist. Hypersensitive and hyperserious people like Mike Grunwald, though, completely missed the satire and intentional stupidity of the statement, readily assuming that I'm so out-of-touch...
...view should be believed because "for AALARM their actions represent just another extracurricular activity, but for us our actions represent our lives." Obviously, Watson's reason was a silly one to justify why not to believe us, and I was just satirizing this flawed reasoning in my letter. Grunwald must have been too Wasingerphobic...
...most important point I'd like to make, however, concerns Grunwald's heroic pursuit to try to get me to contradict myself. Grunwald misconstrued my remark to him that I didn't know any gays at Harvard "personally" for meaning that I didn't know any gays at Harvard. He then proceeded to construct the rather lengthy argument that any and all claims that I have made that homosexuals appear unhappy to me must be entirely without foundation. After all, how could I make such statements without knowing any gays here...
...more specific (Grunwald should like my indulging in substantiation). The Barnum and Bailey's inspired anti-Peninsula rally, the BGLSA's letters to The Crimson and Independent and common dining room talk (especially including the eat-ins) have featured gays and lesbians speaking about how happy they really are. In fact, the gay community here and elsewhere always makes such an effort to publicize that they really, really, are happy, despite what "homophobes" like me may contend...
...should generalize just based on the actions of the BGLSA and the group of radicals promoting the pro-homosexuality ideology. There are probably several people at Harvard with same-sex sexual attractions who don't feel a compelling need to convince others that they feel good about themselves. Grunwald writes that his roommate is one such person. Grunwald expresses surprise that I said I'm happy for people who believe like his roommate apparently does, as if I would on the contrary be happy for their misery...