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LETTERS to the EDITOR
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, May 2, 1990
Book for Wilkens
I would like to recommend that Randall Wilkens and any individual who shares his rather limited view of Christianity and the Bible attempt to expand their minds by learning about the history of the Bible (its numerous misquotes and mistranslations) and about what they can do in that way to homosexuality. Is the Homosexual my Neighbor?, by Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, is an excellent book that offers a truly Christian approach toward lesbian women and gay men. This book is available in the library of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas at room 423 in the Kansas University to encourage Wilkens to stop by our KSQ office and spend an afternoon with this book.
Wendy Griswold
GLSOK office coordinator
Stan Diel, you have gone too far. Your April 30 column concerning the woman who was beaten with a hammer at Clinton Lake was the most reprehensible, insensitive piece of trash I have ever read in the Kansan. It just wasn't funny, Stanley. There was nothing remotely humorous about the crime or your column.
Diel not funny
Maybe it is because I am friends with the woman who was beaten, whom I will call Amy, that I managed to get so riled. If I hadn't seen the stitches in Amy's head the day after it happened, maybe I would have chuckled at your ignorance. If I hadn't seen the look in her eyes that day and seen just how shaken she was, maybe I would have guffawed at your snarl when I had stopped reading books and spent more time tuning into MTV maybe then I would have been more in tune with your rapier-like insights. But I doubt it.
"I'll give you a little credit, Stanley. In the last paragraph of your column, you attempted to make amends by stating that you didn't intend to belittle the seriousness of
the crime. So I am compelled to ask — just what the hell were you doing in the previous 11 paragraphs? Amy could have been killed. It was entirely within the realm of possibility that she could have been raped as well. Luckily, she wasn't. If she had been, would your column have been written differently? Even if all the man himself had been harmless" or expelling himself to her, she still would have been victimized, and guess what, Stan? "That isn't funny!
Stanley, I strongly suggest you turn off your television and start using your brain before you start using your typewriter. Maybe then you would realize that we, as men, are free from the many constant anxieties that women on this campus must suffer every day. Stan, have you ever studied in a lonely corner of Watson (before Letterman starts) and had to worry about some pathetic slob forcing you to watch him while he masturbates? Have you ever seen a sweatsae or a cross-cam at midnight and realized that the guy you passed in front of Lippincott was following you home? Do you ever worry about going home with someone you just met and happen to a lot and then having to walk home the next morning trying to figure out a way to tell your mom that you were raped last night?
Based on your columns throughout the year, Stanley, I doubt that you have stopped to realize that women on this campus and everywhere in the United States must deal with this trash every day.
Until we men decide to become enlightened and actually do something about things such as these, women will be forced to continue with their duties in the raid of us. And it is we men who will be to blame for our ignorance.
Think about this, Stan. Think about making a difference. You can start with a full apology in Friday's Kansan. You can apologize to every woman on this campus. You can apologize for being so callous. You can say that you are sorry for your blunt display of insensitivity. That will be a positive start, Stan. Be man enough to do it, for the measure of a man is not what is in his pants, but what he has in his heart. Then turn off your TV and read a book. At least your sense of humor might improve.
Joe McCauley Barrington, III., senior
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