Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: DHowell.ESCP8@xerox.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Expansion RAM info needed Message-ID: <1114@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 9 Oct 89 02:47:34 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 26 In article <1395@syma.sussex.ac.uk> marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen) > In article <4968@omepd.UUCP> hah@inteloa.UUCP (Hans A. Hansen) writes: > > (503) 246-9311 (Our lovely answering machine will take your orders) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Hans: Keep the sexist crap off the net, OK? WHAT?????!!!!!! "Lovely answering machine" is sexist? I usually consider myself pretty aware of women's issues, but this one really slipped by me. Could you explain to us unenlightened ones what is so sexist about calling an answering machine "lovely"? Is is perhaps that you think "lovely" is a term that can only be applied to women, and thus using it to describe an inanimate object somehow objectifies women? That's really stretching it. If *that* is sexist, then what about > #################### Life's a bitch. Then you die. ################# After all "bitch" is also a term commonly only used towards women, and I think more would be offended by that than "lovely." The unenlightened sexist awaiting your wisdom, Dan Howell