Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish) Message-ID: <5615@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 14:32:55 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5615 Posted: Mon Aug 19 14:32:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:57:27 EDT References: <175@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 33 > After ignoring most this newsgroup for a while, because of the > plethora of male-submitted, uninteresting articles, I decided to go [ ^ note adjective pairing ^ - JW ] > through some articles and tally up the submitters. This resulted > in some interesting statistics: > > Of the first 141 articles: 41 were from women > 100 were from men > > Thinking this was rather phenomenal, I did the same thing to > the next 142 articles, this time: 34 were from women > 108 were from men > > Don't you men think this is a little peculiar? I'm surprised the proportion of women is so high. I always thought USENET was far more male-dominated than that. But then, this *is* net.women. > Do you all > think that each little passing thought is *so* insightful/unique/clever > /whatever that you *must* post each one to the net? SPARE US! What makes you think that only men do this? Was that the royal WE? And, above all, why do you expect this newsgroup to be so much different than the rest of USENET? Come down off your high horse and mix with the peasants, Karla. It won't hurt you - and sometimes it's a good idea to question your own basic assumptions about things. Although, if you get hooked and wind up posting a lot of articles, you won't be able to pull that "each little passing thought" gag quite so effectively. :-) Jeff Winslow