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From: maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Soc.feminism
Message-ID: <5972@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:31:12 GMT
References: <128202@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: maslak@unix.UUCP (Valerie Maslak)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <128202@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) writes:
>In article <48571@bbn.COM> rshapiro@BBN.COM (Richard Shapiro) writes:
>>
>>This is utter fantasy, and more than a little paranoid. Perhaps Mr
>>Turnbow believes that feminism equals man-bashing; perhaps he believes
>>this makes him "middle of the road";
>-----------
>
>I know what was there when the group was first created.  There was
>alot of hostility toward men, and extra filters were applied toward
>postings by any man.  The group was created because out of an emotional
>outburst against men posting in soc.women -- and how some women would
>like a safe forum to discuss woman things among themselves.  Now the flavor

This does not resemble any of my recollections of the founding of
the group. "Safe forum" was an issue in various discussions of the
erstwhile group soc.women.only....it has never come up re
soc.feminism. Moderation was an obvious solution to the heat that
the subject of feminism generates, but personal attacks are not accepted no
matter who they come from, male or female. A cursory examination of
the contents of the group would show Mr. Turnbow that if his
articles were rejected, it was not because he is (or appears to be
at any rate) male.

I have no idea what "extra filters" Mr. Turnbow is talking about.
There were none discussed in ANY of the discussions about the group
that I participated in.

Valerie Maslak