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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
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 21:57:13 1984
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Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa.
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>> 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
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