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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society...
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 08:08:34 EDT
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> 	Someone (sorry, forgot who) posted an article recently which
> asked if net.women == feminism, 101.  I would have thought such
> reiterations would be unnecessary, but the above shows it.
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                                  (my original posting)

> aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features

Okay, somebody help me out here; I am confused, to say nothing of
being a "macho asshole" (Sunny's description). 

Question:
          Do women want to change the world, or what?

The women on the net have an opportunity to educate us males a
little bit, but you *seem* to be saying that you can't be bothered.
Is that correct?

As usual, I am sure that I have somehow mis-interpreted what someone
else said, and what I am posting be will also be mis-interpreted,
and I will will respond with mis-mis-interpretation, with
mis-mis-mis-interpretation ad nauseam. The electronic medium,
methinks, stinks like a week-old fish. 

I have tried to post my thoughts clearly and directly, without
resorting to name-calling. I never expected that everyone would
agree with me, but I did not anticipate some of the vitriol that I
have received. It is, somehow, much easier to hurt when the object
of our anger is an electronic analogue.

Karla, I still disagree absolutely with most of the ideas in 
your original posting, but I
now understand entirely why you said you and many other women have
stopped posting to net.women; it is depressing, and destroys your
faith in humanity. (Long pause here, mulling over what to say
next...) 


"Love is, I think, an instant's fusing of shadow and substance."

                       James Branch Cabell


Best regards,

Andy Cohill
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