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R ichelle J oseph C orbo
Portland
Seeing red
H eartless Atlantis
To the E ditor :
To the E ditor :
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H P he new film Hearts in Atlantis tells the
JL story of the friendship between a mysteri
ous stranger (Anthony Hopkins) and an 11-
year-old boy.
It also features a bully o f about 13 who is a
cross-dresser. His homosexuality is implied.
N o matter how you feel or what you think
about a gay child, it is irresponsible to show a
gay boy sexually assaulting a girl and bashing
her. H eterosexual m ales sexually assault
females.
In one of the worst possible plot points, the
gay boy is bashed in return. This was like seeing
the lynching of a black character as a plot point
for the good.
C an anyone look at a split-rail fence and
not see Matthew Shepards place o f death? In
Portland someone just was murdered, police
believe, because o f her gender identity.
It is dangerous to promote a child giving
physical punishment to the villain for an audi
ence of any age, let alone the intended audience
of a PG-13 film. I am positive this film should
have an X or NC-1 7 rating.
Art can heal. I hate censorship of almost
any kind.
I am not going to say Hearts in Atlantis should
be banned. But seeing this film will harm chil
dren as well as anyone who loves another person
or themselves.
The experience is similar to shooting the
watcher in the head. The brain never will be the
same again. There will be a hole in the head and
in the heart.
C oley F oster
Vancouver, Wash.
B ye-bye, biphobes
To the E ditor :
I
am a dyke who is really tired o f the
hypocrisy o f some gay men and lesbians
P amela W alker
Portland
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when it comes to the subject of bisexuality.
These people expect to be accepted for who
they are but will not extend the same respect
to bisexual people.
Just Out is supposed to be for the whole
queer com m unity yet still prints anti-bi
drivel— the latest being Ms. Behavior telling
us, “ Bisexuality is an imaginary state.” Will
somebody explain to me why this kind of
ignorance is O K ?
Bisexuals are not “semiqueer.” They are
the queers among the queers, as they deal
with discrimination from all directions.
T he Kinsey Scale has numbers 1 through
5, too, not just 0 and 6. If anything, we all
should aspire to love people for who they truly
are inside, not their skin color, not their body
size, not their level o f physical ability and not
their genitalia.
Perhaps these biphobes have some latent
heterosexual issues they need to deal with. I sug
gest Ms. Behavior and her ilk go back and reread
their “Celebrate Diversity” bumper stickers.
And please, Just Out, stop printing such sancti
monious trash.
y using the term “redneck,” Marty Davis is
no better than those she uses that term to
describe. Yes, young white men sometimes call
each other “redneck” just as some young black
men call each other “nigger.”
This does not make it proper or correct for
me to use the term to describe either group. It
certainly is not proper for you to use them,
either.
As for using the military to solve this prob
lem, the World Trade Center was attacked in
the early 1990s. The people responsible were
rounded up and went through our court system.
Hundreds of people were killed and wound
ed in that attack. Eight years later, the terrorists
attacked the same buildings and killed and
wounded thousands.
If we were to send food and other forms of aid
to Afghanistan right now, much of that aid
never would make it to the intended recipients.
The Taliban leadership would get the majority
of anything sent before any suffering Afghani
ever saw it.
It is not a nice and comfortable world we live
in. Sometimes force is necessary, and this is cer
tainly one of those times. Once the corrupt lead
ership of that country is removed, then perhaps
we should consider appropriate aid.
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tragedy of Sept. 11, many of us are suffering from
media overload. I find myself turning off even
National Public Radio, my constant companion
during my one-hour daily commutes.
The continuous stream of information from
the media has provided the opportunity to hear
and read some of the best commentary and some
of the worst, such as the statements made by James
Baker and Jack Kemp on the day after the hijack
ing. The print media allow us to absorb informa
tion in moderation, at the rate we can chcxise to
meet our mental and spiritual capacities.
Now that the fast-breaking news is winding
down, we are focusing on commentaries suggest
ing where to go next. We have heard many
opinions, including a powerful speech from
President Bush.
Yet 1 must say that the commentary written
by publisher Marty Davis was one of the most
eloquently stated and thought-provoking 1 have
encountered. If more people would heed her
advice, 1 have to wonder whether we might
accomplish an end to terrorism with far less
trauma to both the citizens of our country and
those of Afghanistan.
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