Absolutely RIVETING!!
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> From: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: SAC
> Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 3:48 PM
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> Listers,
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> Some exciting, late-breaking news!! As luck would have it, a chance
> conversation between a TAC member and someone sitting next to them at a
bar
> just last night in S.F. has led to an idea for a companion organization
to
> TAC. During the course of casual conversation these individuals realized
> that almost the identical problem to that addressed by TAC exists for
those
> trying to obtain "authentic" sexual partners. This is a recent problem
> brought on by the alarming increase in sexual "conversion" operations
being
> performed both openly and surreptitiously. As most of you would suppose,
> the greatest activity in this type of conversion is in California,
> primarily in the S.F. and L.A. areas. The need for some type of
> "authentication committee" is obvious to anyone frequenting the bar scene
> or other venues for establishing sexual companionship. In all too many
> cases, what appears to be a perfectly authentic female (or male) has
turned
> out, after considerable investment of time and money, to be a fraud.
> Obviously this whole issues raises a number of thorny questions, but they
> are really all just the same issues that TAC has been dealing with
already.
> All that is needed is a new list of authentication criteria that
addresses
> the issue of "real" versus "conversion" gender.
>
> Now many on the list (you know who you are) will argue that "So what's
the
> big deal here? When you get right down to it there's not a nickel's worth
> of difference between male and female anyway." Well, of course that's a
> point well taken. On the other hand, as the French say, "Viva la
> difference!!!" Of course we can well anticipate that others of you on
the
> list will be incensed if we keep the authentication criteria a secret.
> Again, point well taken. However, as with the Tiger versus Alpine
question,
> we can only wonder why you don't just check it out for yourselves. (Could
> actually be fun!!) Yet others of you will be concerned that this new
> organization (SAC) will abuse its power and arbitrarily assign a gender
> based on superficial characteristics. For example, how does a boob job,
> face lift, tummy tuck, etc., etc. affect the sexual authenticity of an
> individual? While all of these questions, and many more are raised by the
> issue of authenticity, the need for some type of authentication becomes
> clear when you put yourself in the position of an earnest, but
unsuspecting
> individual who in good faith enters into a committed relationship only to
> later discover they have been sleeping with a man (or woman)?? SAC
people,
> like the TAC people, will need special sensitivity training to enable
them
> to deal with the highly emotionally charged situation created when they
> have the unfortunate task of informing an individual that his (or her)
> partner is a (Gasp!!) A CONVERSION!!! Special counseling is almost
always
> required, especially in the case of long term relationships. (One can
only
> wonder if, in this later case, maybe it would have been better to just
> leave well enough alone.)
>
> I hope that most of you will be able to see the similar issues
confronting
> TAC and SAC and recognize our responsibility to try and lend our
> considerable experience and expertise to address this very real and
growing
> problem. I''ll be looking forward hearing from many of you who I'm sure
> will have pertinent observations and/or constructive suggestions to make
on
> how best to implement the SAC program. BTW, do we have any volunteers
> willing to serve on the Committee?? It's a difficult and thankless job,
but
> somebody's got to do it.
>
> Happy Fourth to all,
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> Bob
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