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silverfoxesclub-digest
Wednesday, October 11 2000
Volume 01 : Number 011

SIBJECT LINES:
-My kind of diet
-New Ben Boxer story at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse
-Re: My kind of diet
-You, too, can be a Girl Scout!
-Dr. Laura apologizes???!!!
-Today is National Coming Out Day
-Bob Feinstein: Introducing myself again
-One more thing

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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:27:54 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: My kind of diet

BREAKFAST

2 oz. Carrot Juice

1 Slice Whole Wheat Toast

8 oz. Skim Milk

LUNCH

4 oz. Lean Broiled Chicken Breast

1 Cup Steamed Carrots

1 Oreo Cookie

Herb Tea (no sugar)

MID- AFTERNOON SNACK

Rest of the Package of Oreos

1 Quart of Rocky Road Ice Cream

1 Jar of Hot Fudge

DINNER

2 Loaves Garlic Bread

Large Pepperoni and Mushroom Pizza

Large Pitcher of Beer

2 Milky Way Candy bars

Entire Frozen Cheesecake ( eaten directly from the freezer )

DIET TIPS

!. If no one sees you eat it-- it has no calories.

2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar they cancel each other out.

3. When eating with someone else, calories don't count if you both eat the same amount.

4. Food used for medicinal purposes never count such as: Hot Chocolate, Brandy, Toast and Sara Lee Cheese Cake.

5. If you fatten everyone else around you -- then you look thinner.

6. Movie-related foods don't count because they are simply part of one's entire entertainment experience and not a part of one's personal fuel (such as Milk Duds, Popcorn with Butter, Junior Mints, and Red Licorice.)

7. Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breakage causes calorie leakage.

8. Carrot cake is an unlimited vegetable.
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:15:40 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: New Ben Boxer story at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse

Greetings, all!

Since my last story used lots of bandwidth in its one-column format, if you would like to read my NEW story at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse, just go to the URL below this line:
http://www.benboxer.com/PixTales/BathHouse/BathHouse.html

That's where you will find "Bath House," a few sample lines from which appear below:

"At first, he moved so gently for so long that I could almost have gone to sleep again, but then his strokes quickened, and his hands tightened around my shoulders, and hot, gasping breaths replaced his tender kisses behind my ear. He began driving at full speed, as if determined to win the Grand Prix.

"He swung to the left, then to the right, then drove hard up the middle lane. The friction of his cock hammering into the depths of my ass generated enough heat to make a bonfire of my bowels, numbing my sensitive tissues to the blows.

"Crossing the finish line, he sprayed his semen with an ear-splitting grunt. I swore I felt a million sperm spew into my guts, rioting to swim upstream.

"It was over. The lust knitting us together had come unraveled at last."
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:19:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Feinstein

Subject: Re: My kind of diet

Ben, darling, I loved your diet. I got scared at first, when it sounded so healthy, but when you talked about the pint of rockyroad ice cream, I felt better, and the pizza is right up my alley! Are there any guys on this list who like big guys? I seem to be expanding with age! When Harley guides me, he has to judge for two now!

Hugs,
Bob and Harley
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:54:41 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: You, too, can be a Girl Scout!

(Ben Boxer says: The Boy Scouts problem of discriminating against gays is taking off into the stratosphere, and I find it an interesting subject to follow for the fascinating controversy it is generating in the most unlikely places. All across the U.S.A., small and large communities are getting into the act.

I read a long account today of the issue, and found a couple of excerpts which may be of interest to some of you. I don't expect it to interest all of you, but what does? My job is to pick a variety of subjects for your consideration and then hope that maybe one or two items will matter to you.

On a list with a diverse membership like ours, diversity has to be our middle name. I know that some of you don't like that. You want this to be a dating and fuck list only. Some of you hate the foxhunter pix, and others are bored by the silverfoxes pix, etc. To you I say, find another list where you can squabble and flame, because it ain't gonna happen here. I have always said about my lists that I would prefer to have 10 members who like to span the whole range of the gay/bisexual experience than 1,000 who are just here to find somebody to suck their dicks.

Many of you write to me in gratitude for presenting gay-related information that you do not have time or opportunity to research for yourselves. Everyone is invited to contribute to our forum on almost any issue of your choice.

One of the most welcome contributions you can make is to submit a posting from time to time telling us about yourself, who you are, and what you like sexually or otherwise. That way we can get to know each other. You can also post a Member Profile at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse from the list's Home Page http://www.boxersfoxes.com/mmclublist/index.html

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Now, here are some excerpts from the article about the Boy Scouts situation, which I read tonight in "U.S.A. Today," a generic publication a waggish friend of mine denigrates as "Yesterday's News Tomorrow!":

The present controversy was set off June 28, after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Boy Scouts of America is a private organization and therefore free to exclude gay men from serving as troop leaders. (The Scouts also ban gay members.)

The decision overturned a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that applied the state's anti-discrimination law and required a New Jersey Scout troop to readmit a longtime member and assistant scout leader, James Dale, who had been thrown out of the Scouts after he told associates he is gay.

The court focused narrowly on the issue of a private group's right under the First Amendment to set its own membership rules.

So where has the above led?

Many say that the Scouts simply are out of step with modern viewpoints. Homosexuality is more widely accepted in American society today than it was when the Scouts began litigating the issue 20 years ago.

In last week's vice-presidential debate, the two candidates expressed support for gay civil rights in a way that has not been heard in presidential debates to date. Democrat Joe Lieberman expressed the need for tolerance, and Republican Dick Cheney, whose daughter Mary is gay, forthrightly agreed.

The fallout from the Supreme Court decision comes as the Scouts also face competition from the increasing variety of activities available to youths. For much of its history, the Scouts were the only youth organization available in many communities.

Now, an array of other groups offer athletic, religious, scholastic and artistic activities. Many of the other groups, including the Girls Scouts of America, the YMCA, 4-H clubs, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Jewish community groups, don't exclude gays.

Indeed, in Fort Lauderdale, at an emotional four-hour debate before the city commission voted to end an annual grant to the Scouts, the director of the Florida Girl Scouts stepped to the microphone and declared: "Even men can be Girl Scouts."

But outside the courtroom, the scouting groups' stance that they can exclude gays because they are private organizations has undermined their ability to receive public money, sponsorships or other support from taxpayer-supported schools and governments that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

"The Boy Scouts cannot have it both ways," says Linda Hill, executive director of the San Diego ACLU, which took the city to court to try to force it to revoke its 50-year lease with the Scouts at the city's Balboa Park. "They convinced the court that they are a private group with a constitutionally protected right to discriminate. So now they cannot turn around and ask taxpayers for a public subsidy in the form of a preferential lease."

Lynn Barnes-Wallace, a lesbian and a plaintiff in the suit, says the issue prompted a difficult conversation with her 7-year-old son who wanted to join the Cub Scouts. She told him that she and her partner believed that they wouldn't be welcome to participate.

"We told him that if he joined, he would have to swear an oath that denies his parents' rights," she says. The boy wound up not joining the Scouts.

Shields says that while Barnes-Wallace wouldn't have been allowed to be a Scout leader, she could have participated in scouting activities with her son.

(Ben Boxer interjects: "They are so condescending toward us, as if we should be satisfied with crumbs and not expect the cake because they are our betters, and we are second class!")

The topic has been just as polarizing in many communities. Civic leaders across the nation say they feel strongly about discrimination yet support the Scouts, which are beloved for their good works, especially their programs for disadvantaged youths.

(Ben Boxer comments: "One of the statements most often heard from the discriminatory side is that cutting off the Boy Scouts from public funding will deprive many of exposure to the 'high moral standards' of the Scouts. I find that a worthy deprivation, to grow up without being taught by example to despise and disrespect an entire class of fellow citizens with whom you will have to live and work as an adult in our multi-cultural society.)
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:07:39 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Dr. Laura apologizes???!!!

Headline:
Variety .gay Hollywood. issue features Dr. Laura ad

Text:
Daily Variety, one of the most widely read show-business trade publications, hits the stands October 11 with a look at .gay Hollywood,. examining the achievements of the out community in the entertainment industry as well as exploring the challenges that still lie ahead.

One ad in the magazine, targeted to gays and lesbians in show business, comes from embattled TV advice-giver Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who takes advantage of this week.s Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) celebration to write an open letter to the gay community.

Schlessinger writes, .While I express my opinions from the perspective of an Orthodox Jew and a staunch defender of the traditional family in talking about gays and lesbians, some of my words were poorly chosen. Many people perceive them as hate speech. This fact has been personally and professionally devastating to me as well as to many others. Ugly words have been relentlessly repeated and distorted for far too long.. On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from people we have hurt. I deeply regret the hurt this situation has caused the gay and lesbian community..

The Dr. Laura program has been the target of bad reviews and advertiser boycotts, partially due to protest by gay rights activists who objected to the physiologist.s use of the phrase .biological error. in referring to gay people and to her comments regarding the percentage of gay men who are pedophiles.
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:23:01 -0700
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Today is National Coming Out Day

That's right. Today, Wednesday, October 11, is National Coming Out Day. But don't do it unless it's right for YOU!!!!
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:11:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Feinstein

Subject: Introducing myself again

List friends, I'm Bob Feinstein. Ben has been incredibly supportive and kind to me since I've joined the list. I have found that I have not made any list contacts, and so want to try again.

I would like to correspond by email, and later phone, with guys who would be interested in a possible friendship, with perhaps a sexual component later. I am blind from birth, have blond hair, and my eyes would be blue if they were normal looking. I am a heavy guy, standing 5 feet 9, and weighing about 320 pounds. I am 50 years old.

I have found it difficult to penetrate the gay community, especially in big groups. There is an article I wrote on the website bentvoices.org which talks about a fiasco at a convention. I changed some of the names, but those who are in the know will have an idea what I'm talking about.

Back to my request: I want to meet guys who are interested in exchanging ideas with a possibility of meeting. Because of my blindness, I think one of the most important characteristics I need in a new friend is somewhat of a nurturing temperament, and someone who does not mind helping, as I of course do need help being guided, etc.

I believe that I have a lot to offer in the areas of compassion, conversation, and a real feeling for the importance of touch.

I want to thank Ben for his kindness towards me, and his having put many of his stories on tape for me.

I will send two pictures: one is probably a bit better than the other.

When responding to me at harlynn@panix.com please do not send pictures, as they are of no use to me, and to be honest, I care more about a person's kindness and inner qualities, and of course, sweet smelling cologne!

Hugs,
Bob and guide dog Harley
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Feinstein

Subject: One more thing

Relocating for me is definitely a possibility, as I'm getting tired of the weather and the life here in New York.

Bob and Harley
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