On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Kaoru L. Shimitsu wrote:

    I agree with Caroline.... in many respects about the Lemon stuff.  Us

I don't.  I think she's whining.  She's perfectly capable of writing
something without a lemon component if she really wants to.  And there is
no natural law that says they have to accept anything with a lemon
component, any more than they have to accept stories written in
Serbo-croatian or which are paraphrases of the 1929 Labour party
manifesto.  It's their contest, they can set whatever limits they want.

Get a life.

   While I am at legal age, I am still incredibly insulted by the standards of
American society, especially the fact that by doing this it only causes MORE
problems, not less.  The way I see it, we're making all our children out to be
sexually frustrated at young ages, and a bit unknowledgable about the entire
subject in itself.

I take it you are all knowing about the psychological development of human
beings?  Ask any five psychiatrists and you'll get eight different
opinions on whether or not certain things are healthy.

    We do this while other nations and countries have television with explicit
sex on them.  Heck, France recently released a series of "Safe Porn" movies,

That's nice.  There's countries where they still have slavery and condone
rape too.  Just because some people do something doesn't mean it's right.

    Only most unbalanced people can be influenced by the un-reality of such
things.

And there's lots of unbalanced people out there.  

    As for Caroline..... This *IS* Discrimination against her, but it's also

No, it's not discrimination against HER.  There's nothing to stop her or
anyone else who normally writes Lemon stories from writing a non-Lemon
story for the contest.  Unless you're going to argue she's incapable of
writing anything else.  

If say, Women were banned from writing, or Australians, then you could
argue that she was being discriminated against.  Your argument is like
arguing that if someone has a photography contest, they're discriminating
against painters.  



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