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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: men dominate (?) net.women
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:11:18 EDT
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>                            Andy Cohill
>Out of one side of your mouth you waiving the flag for equal
>treatment, freedom to compete with men, more power for women, etc.,
>and out of the other side you seem to be saying that you women just
>don't have what it takes to "dominate" this forum, so we men should
>"let" you dominate it.

Well, Andy, you must have been mad, and let your anger color your posting.
Karla was expressing a personal opinion, essentially (as I interpreted it --
another personal opinion) that she wasn't interested in hearing all the
crap recently being posted to the net (you recall, while she did cite the
number of articles posted, by sex, her REAL gripe was the trivial subject
matter and the lack of information on the part of many of the posters).

I also took her gripe about the relative numbers to be her interpretation
as to WHY the subjects were trivial and/or lacking information.  The
collective we of net.women have been aware of the volume level for some
time.  Perhaps (just interpretation here) Karla is suggesting that the
true relevant volume of the net is closer to the 39 articles women posted
than the 143 that include the men's contributions.

Frankly, I don't agree with her, and am as mindful of my sense of obligation
to refute some of the stupider arguments of the uninformed as well as
respond favorably to the arguments of those similarly educated to myself,
BUT! she certainly is entitled to her opinion.

IF I were a man, and IF my intent in reading net.women was to learn
something I didn't already know about women, I might find a message in
Karla's posting -- that there are women out there who don't post possibly
interesting/intelligent stuff because they don't like the way this net
works. IF I didn't care, then I'd probably 'n' past the rest of this
argument.

Adrienne Regard