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Geoff Miller (geoffm@netcom.com) utters:


> People
> can be found who are allergic to damn near anything -- 
> especially _these_ days, when it's apparently hip to
> be weak^H^H^H^Hsensitive (in _all_ senses of the word).

> I thought I'd left the world of finicky eaters behind
> by the time I'd turned eleven or twelve, but these
> days it seems that everybody's "allergic" to this or
> has a "sensitivity" to that or "can't eat" the other.
> Whine, whine, whine. 

> What's all this talk of "sensitivity" I see these 
> days?  "Insensitive" has become the latest liberal
> buzzword, much like "empowerment" was in the 1980s.
> And it's evidence that women have found their
> political voice, too; "sensitivity" isn't something
> that it would occur to most men to speak in terms of.
> At least, not unless they were trying to get laid...


I'm guess you have some other issues here, besides what requirements
others have on what they can and can't eat. I can't imagine what you gain
from implying that people with life- and health-threatening food allergies
are putting on an act. Except to be oh-so-outrageously insensitive.

I suppose the throat-swelling, heart palpitations, and death are mere
plots to get laid, as well.

Steve "ya make a dead man come..." Portigal


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