Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: hrose@cs.bu.edu (Helen Trillian Rose) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Chess Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 19:00:44 GMT References: <1991Mar29.020740.2687@world.std.com> <1991Apr1.030506.16835@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr4.123252.1@dev8.mdcbbs.com> <1991Apr7.031214.3065@bilver.uucp> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc. Lines: 28 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In-Reply-To: bilver!alex@uunet.uu.net's message of 8 Apr 91 18:35:24 GMT Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Alex> == Alex Matulich Alex> And don't forget computer programming! This is definitely a Alex> male-dominated activity (often done as a hobby, too), and it's about Alex> the most lonely and un-packlike activity I can imagine. I don't agree. I'm female. I like to program/hack on computers. I even like to do this with friends (not all male, mind you) in a group, perhaps in a terminal room at school, perhaps elsewhere. It's actually more productive this way.... we don't end up spending all of our lives sending each other email asking questions on projects we are working on together. :) Hacking all-night is even more fun! Alex> If there are a lot of males who aren't socialized to operate in packs, Alex> why can't there be a lot of females who are? I am not sure of the Alex> validity of your argument. I'll note that the guys *and* girls I hack with *don't* usually operate in "packs", but they operate well under the situation I described above... would you consider that a pack? If not, why? --Helen -- Helen Trillian Rose "Oh, go get raped by a TARC bus, Jef (Poskanzer)" -- Marci Yesowitch (yesowitc@ucunix.san.uc.edu)