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...kiss-in" staged in the Mather dining hall bythe student group Defeat Homophobia and theposting of pink triangles in students' windows asa show of solidarity with the gay community havecaused widespread debate...
...student described the kiss-in by saying that, "The students were shoving it in the face of people who are not ready to deal with it. That's what bothered me." But there should be no problem with students holding hands or kissing one another, and if it had been heterosexual couples doing so, the reaction would certainly have been different...
SIMILARLY, the majority laments the reaction to the Mather kiss-in, noting that had heterosexuals staged a kiss-in the reaction would have been "different" A heterosexual kiss-in in the dining hall during meal hours surely would have offended many students as well. Simply put, this form of protest--whether used by gays or hetersexuals--stretches the limits of good taste and consequently suffers as an effective means of protest...
There were many other, more constructive means that Defeat Homophobia could have used in order to further the commendable cause of greater toleration on campus. As it turned out, it unfortunately and unwisely settled on a questionable one, the kiss-in, and then falsely attributed its non-success to "homophobia...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...