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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME!)
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 08:40:14 EST
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> 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