Subject: Into the Fray....Censor Tweeters!
Date: Jul 09 23:36:38 1998
From: Leslie Ann Rose - sylph at nwlink.com


I must apologize for my short-sighted selfishness. At the time I added
a plea for respect to other list members, I was unaware I was severely
impacting anyone's freedom of speech. After much soul-searching and
self-flageration, I see now how prudish and repressed a person I am and
my concern for those list members equally as unenlighted as myself was a
thin-skinned effort at control.

I am reminded of a time when my son, at age 2, heard THE word from yours
truely. For 3 days we were treated to the sound of this mantra being
chanted nearly round the clock, while I waited for him to grow tired of
it. I was a progressive, loving and mature parent. I could out wait
him. I probably could have too, if it weren't for that unfortunate
episode at Sunday School which forced the discussion about appropriate
behavior to time and place.

Human language is a full and rich thing of color and imagery and
emotion. Excuse me, but I've got a full day ahead. Need to edit my
field notes of a site I'd been observing. Whenever I noted an
observation of copulation, I need to correct it to the more appropriate
word as defined herein.

Thank you for the education.

Leslie Ann Rose
Tacoma, WA