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<p>I agree. Double standards abound in this area of scholarship and of life!</p>
<p>Diana<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+dswanson=niu.edu@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Sarah M. Hall <smhall123@yahoo.co.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> VWOOLF listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Was she or wasn't she?</font>
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Ardel Haefele-Thomas, and it frees us from a lot of prurient investigations.<br>
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that someone had sexual encounters to be queer. We certainly do not ask that heterosexual identity be validated in the same way.<br>
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