Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!sjuvax!bbanerje From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Sex prejudice, what else? - (nf) Message-ID: <223@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 21:57:13 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.223 Posted: Wed Mar 21 21:57:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 21:23:19 EST References: <1118@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 39 >> she gets responses from men who (besides not honoring the women-only >> guide lines, they're wrong, but they do exist) trivialize the problem >> and suggest really practical solutions, like exposing yourself to >> ionizing radiation. >> Since I am the person who (inadvertently) started this entire discussion vis a vis Static Cling; I'd like to make some comments on the matter. My follow-up was (I think!) rather innocuous. I stated that I had never seen this problem (NOT that it didn't exist) and suggested a solution (grounding oneself to get rid of the static charge). It was subsequently pointed out to me that a surface charge on an insulator (fabric) is not dissipated by grounding. Thanks for the information, to those who replied. As far as your point about honouring the women-only guide line - I don't buy it. The Usenet is by its very nature, a broadcast medium. Excluding some group or the other raises visions of censorship. The news comes into MY machine, and I posted a followup on the same. You are claiming that your posting on a public forum is somehow private and priviledged. I don't see it that way. In the near future, I will be supplying a news feed to 2 new sites in this area. If I decided not to forward net.rec.wood or net.garden on the grounds that they are of no interest to me, and therefore, should not be forwarded; I would be guilty of trying to enforce my own (narrow?) viewpoint of what is appropriate. I feel that this .only business does the same. Thanks to all for the (generally) civil and helpful replies. Regards, -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje