Written by Paul Jaquays
September 8, 1997 

HELLKITTEN:
You can't be male and not appreciate images of beautiful women. But there is a line between pin-ups and pornography. And I think even immature folks know exactly when they are crossing it (unless they are complete sociopaths). Subjecting Hellkitten to the kind of immaturity that is rampant on the net (and the online gaming community) was and is inexcusable. But even the "mature" members of the Quake community send mixed messages. Everyone jokes about "Prawn" and "pr0n" and other words that sidestep web filters, but it's still photographs designed to titillate immature males. Now why is it that pornography suddenly becomes wrong when it hurts someone we know and/or care about personally? Maybe if we just all admitted that it's wrong ALL the time, we'd make steps towards not hurting women like Hellkitten and any of the others who have been hazed and harassed on line. If you really want to do something about the problem, clean the pornography out of your own computers, stop visiting the websites that provide that kind of trash, stop visiting the websites that provide links to pornography (and let them know what you're doing) and encourage others to follow suit. Lead by example.

RACISM & PC:
Will everyone just stop blaming the all world's ills on middle-aged, conservative white guys. Racism is not the exclusive property of European Caucasians. If it were, then the Hutus and the Tutsis wouldn't be trying to exterminate each other in Africa, the Japanese wouldn't treat Koreans (and other continental Asians) like inferiors, and the Mid-East would be a land of harmony and contentment (and that's just the tip of the world's problems that have nothing to do with white folk). Just like social liberals lambast social conservatives for trying to set moral standards into law, so it goes the other way for legislating attitudes and language. The Golden Rule said it best "Treat others as you would have them treat you."

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