balls

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 07:03:03 +0000

    '…Excising your letter of offending sports references
    (which mean absolutely nada to me..'

    Nor to me Camille.  But we must be indulgent.  Although
    you & I both know without a scintilla of anxiety or doubt
    that there's absolutely nothing, nothing at all, to be ashamed
    about - or requiring explanation - in those tiny residual traces
    of isosexual tenderness that persist in all our hearts, there remain,
    sadly - in the secret places of many male minds - certain qualms
    about gender identity.  Naively, these chaps feel that a boisterous
    display of sporting enthusiasm will allay whatever doubts might
    linger in the minds of the rest of us.  Hence all this joshing
    & expertise about bouncing balls.  It may take a while to die
    down (the anxiety is rather greater than one might think)
    but a week or two should see the end of it.

    It has just occurred to me that you may not be familiar
    with the phenomenon since poofters cannot, of course,
    survive in the dry climate of Australia.

    Scottie B.