Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society... Message-ID: <236@whuts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 08:08:34 EDT Article-I.D.: whuts.236 Posted: Thu Aug 22 08:08:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:45:58 EDT References: <931@oddjob.UUCP> <235@whuts.UUCP> <2669@ihuxf.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 48 > 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. ^ | (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 {allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc