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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yeah, I do think you need all those criteria. Because a person's gaydar can be wrong.

I often think of the Oxford/Cambridge philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe. (Yes, I really do.) In her time, she struck people as pretty dyke-y. Wore pants. Butch hair. Smoked a cigar. Was not conspicuously feminine in social, emotional and intellectual style. Student of, and intellectual collaborator with, Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was (people thought) obviously homosexual.

But Anscombe was a believing and practicing and very traditional Catholic, advocate of chastity, anti-contraception, faithful wife of philosopher Peter Geach, mother of 7.

Sometimes you just can't tell.

57 posted on 07/12/2012 3:40:01 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Actually, she does not set off my gaydar.

If anything, she looks Amish.

Just because your gaydar is faulty does not mean everybody's is.

58 posted on 07/12/2012 4:19:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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