Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME!) Message-ID: <200@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 08:40:14 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.200 Posted: Wed Jan 16 08:40:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 04:22:13 EST References: <580006@acf4.UUCP> <1178@ut-ngp.UUCP>, <810@pucc-i> <147@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 > Okay, now I'm offended. I'm not sure where you get off drawing a parallel > between women as a group and wasps as a group. It seems to me that groups > that are institutionally disfranchised deserve not only the space to > commune, but also a measure of protection. (If these groups weren't on > the outside in the first place there would clearly be *no* need for > net.*.only.) Sorry, this probably doesn't include wasps. They have plenty > of their own space already :-) > > Melinda Well wasps have *no* legal rights as wasps, which strikes me as a greater disenfranchisement than women, who only have to cope with social attitudes :- Marcel