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From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta)
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Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME!)
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 16:06:57 EST
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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
> 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 :-)

You're offended?  Too bad!  I get off comparing the groups because they
ARE groups!  I didn't create either one of the groups.  Why do you
INSIST on splitting people up like this.  I think that groups deserve
the right to do what they want, as long as they are based on common
interest, not on sex, religion, race, etc.  And as long as they aren't
EXCLUSIVE of anyone based on something that person has no control over!
You seem to figure you desrve net.women.only.  What would happen if I
said "By gum, I really think that I deserve a group that can't include
people with blue eyes, a hunchback, or whose great grandfather came from
another country."  I think you'd say it was bogus.  And you'd be right.
That's what I'm calling net.women.only.  BOGUS!  You're saying that
these people are different from those people.  Wrong.  I think something
like "People is people." is a more fitting approach.  


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Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major"
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