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Tuesday, September 25, 1934
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Lincoln man seems to have made
a career of snread'm? far of hnmrv
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sexual.
He reached a degree of local celebrity
two years ro by leading a successful
campaign against a proposed city ordi
nance that would have required land
lords and businesses to give homosexuals
equal opportunity.
The man, Paul Cameron, a licensed
psychologist from Lincoln, was quoted in
an Associated Press story about a speech
he made Saturday in Main?.
Cameron said, "Homosexual meeting
places should be closed, gay bars, gay
baths and public parks taken over by
homosexuals should be closed and all
practicing homosexuals should be re
quired to register and their movements
should be tracked."
Cameron, who is not a medic al doctor,
claims Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn
drome has the potential to stride hxlf of
tne estimated 4 million homosexual men homosexual pose a moral and physical
in thMTnifrri F.tatr and that A1D3 could threat to -normal" members of society.
be a threat to heterosexuals. Homosexuals are not less people than
The director of Maine's sexually trans
mitted disease program said the case3 of
AIDS reported so far do not threaten the
general public. He said if the infection
was "highly contagious" there would be
tens of thousands of cases, rather than
the 6,000 nationwide that have been
reported.
Cameron has argued In the past that
heterosexuab, blsexuab or a.5exuab. They
should be accorded the same rights.
Cameron's comments appeal to the
emotions and especially fear, but he does
not back his assumptions with hard facts.
One wonders how Cameron would react
to a proposal to register white Anglo
Saxon heterosexuals because they have
been known to contract syphilid.
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"T fyou lean owr the edge of Any gap amongyoung men and
i the gender gap and listen vomenb worth looking at This b
a. wry carefully, you can hear the mating age, w hen the motiva-
something more than the static lion to find some meeting of the
of pollsters down there. You can
hear the echoes of men's lives.
For owr a year, the president s
people have argued that the gen
der gap bnY women against Eea
gin. it's men in favor cf Reasran.
Theirs was essentially a debate
Ellen
oodman
about w hether the cup w as half
empty or half-ful But now, when
Reagans cup runneth owr, tne
argument b getting more attention.
From the female side of the
gap. we hear concerns about
women's right, the fairness issue,
and especially peace. Front the
male side, we hear concerns about
leadership, touchness. strength
Indeed, t here are peop'e ready to
minds and lives is greatest. But if
its a macho gap that hinges on
what one has cailed the "swagger"
factor, it s worth a stare.
Among the idealistic assump
tions of the women's movement
was the notion that as men and
women led more similar lives,
they would have more in com
mon with each other. Another
assumption was that machoism
would gradually become extinct,
as its favorite sons retired grace
fully from active duty.
Now we are told that young
men are attracted specifically to
the wood-cutting, barbell-toting.
horse-riding, Soviet-baiting, Ma- i
rine-landing idea of a president I
We are told that these men are
drawn to a mythic father figure,
in the form of a man older than
their own fathers. Is this some
sort of reaction, the much
heraided backlash, the proof of
w hat some young women say de
spairingly about the new man.
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wnh a new
r..v.T.e, Tr.e Macho Gap-
It is rbky to make a generaliza
tion out ef a polling deference,
but I haw the sense that we are
witnessing the rolitkal exrres-
.a: is most intnquir.i: about ion cf private cornet. The poU
.iTercr.ce between male ar.d
female wirg preferences ss that
they run strong-ess among the
vvung The Litest New York Times
CRS New s poll show ed that among
IS- to vYar-o'.ds. men prefer
the Republican, ticket by 57 to 30
percent while women prefer the
IVrnvvratx- ticket 46 to 41
cert-
sens ha told us that young men
cenetaiv arw wth wung women
sckmsness gaps, I have seen a
whole lot of ambrvalence about
images, from women as well as
men. Young women today are
psychologically outfitted with
briefcases and fancy underwear,
with assorted outfits suitable for
managing by day and loving by
r.icht all charged on our wry
own American Express card. Even
the r.ew Miss America.
hobbv b coSectins soa p. descrS
a career as cart cf her traditional
but not dominating, to be vuiner- tough, independent, in charge,
able but not weak, to be caring connected man.
but above all don't be a wimp.
Most young men accept the need
for trust and peacekeeping at
horn, but they may remain more
suspicious than women of the
Political campaigns are always
more complicated than theories
and, in the end, young voters are
judging candidates, not ideas or
wnose
hostiliy and toughness of the Jpsy?h We
values. J'ar.y women naw
with arnbsvalence by simply incor
poraiirg all the eld and new fe
male images into one efren ira-
en the issues, whether they are
about the bomb er the
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What thev cisgreie about
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ideal
Men haw also teea living wiih
the
do-ub'e messages of the aie
From my observatior. pctsi at jr.d of the women in ther Evtrs.
other con- Thev have toes told to be strcr.2
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world "out there.
My sense b that these men are
attracted by both the Mario
Cuomo peacekeepinglamily" man
and by the Reagan swagger. It
may be the contour of their am bivalence.
Like women, they would
rather not choose between images
but include them all into some
fanciful creature. Their ideal
would. also mix traditional and
non-traditional. They would be
pan caretaker and part protec
tor and part boss the serni-
dent and not a spouse.
But at the bottom cfthb gender
gap, there b a distinct majority of
young men who like the swagger.
Many of the women they are
likely to know and love and marry
are uneasy with that posture. It
makes me wonder what body
language their generation will be
able to share.
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