ABSTRACT
When I first encountered Meera, she was being charged as the following: “a foul-mouthed but temple-going woman, an openly bisexual/lesbian woman … a downright slutty woman.” It was the first posting of a thread titled “Bring Back the Stigma,” written by Anu, who felt compelled to post excerpts from an article by Donna Rice of the same title. The message was to serve as
an antidote to some of the immodest trash Meera has posted in this newsgroup. If Meera’s intelligent (if misguided) and powerfully persuasive writing style has skewed your sense of what is right and what is wrong, what is acceptable and what is not, and who is a slut and who is not, perhaps this will help deskew it. 1
