Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version Tektronix Network News Daemon (B 2.10.2 based); site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!moiram From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Whose watching the kids Message-ID: <5562@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:27:46 EDT Article-I.D.: tektroni.5562 Posted: Mon Aug 5 13:27:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:39:02 EDT References: <580@ttidcc.UUCP> <357@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 31 Summary: In article <357@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: > >Probably --- men really don't have any kind of organization behind them. >Do you remember the ridicule directed at someone in net.women about a >year ago when he suggested starting a "National Org. of Men"? > >The basic flame directed at this poor individual was:"Men already have >all the advantage. Why would you need some _sexist_ group like >that?" > >This was about the same time, BTW, that the "Association for Women in >Computing" was considered *not* to be sexist in anyway by some members >of this group. > Ross, unless the flamers are the same people who consider AWC to not be sexist, NO inconsistency exists. Just a difference of opinion. If men really don't have any kind of organization behind them, whose fault is that? What, a little ridicule stopped you? Do you think that NOW just materialized out of thin air, and that it continues to exist through inertia? Don't be silly. Women have these groups because people perceive a need, and care enough about it to donate time and money to make it happen. LOTS and LOTS of time and money. Back to the trenches.... Moira Mallison tektronix!moiram