Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME!) Message-ID: <147@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:08:41 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.147 Posted: Mon Jan 14 22:08:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 05:42:20 EST References: <580006@acf4.UUCP> <1178@ut-ngp.UUCP>, <810@pucc-i> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 15 > You can > bet your sweet ass that there would have been more people (like you, > probably) screaming bloody murder if ther was a group named > net.wasp.only. 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