Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: chris@psych.toronto.EDU (Christine Hitchcock) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Why I Am Not a Feminist Message-ID: <1991May8.131631.12448@psych.toronto.edu> Date: 8 May 91 15:08:45 GMT References: > <14551@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <673368647@lear.cs.duke.edu> Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Lines: 39 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu Hillel Gazit talked about the implicit rules that govern what he terms "play on the net". And in response to Gordon Fitch: >>In order to play this game properly, however, you have to inform all >>the players that they are in it, and when it starts. He says: >Why? >In *my* opinion what people do when they think that "it >does not count" shows more about what they really are. Here, I think, is where Hillel is making an assumption about what influences people to follow-up. There are a number of things that determine whether I follow-up a post. One is certainly that I'm not interested in the issue. But sometimes I am confused about an issue, and, rather than throw myself into the fray, I sit back and watch what others have to say. Sometimes I strongly disagree with what is being posted, but I am vastly outnumbered and I don't feel I have the energy to invest in a long flame war and email debate. Sometimes I feel that what is being posted is clearly absurd, and a refutation would dignify it. In general, I try to have something more to say than "record my vote for this side or that side". And some days my drive to avoid my thesis is just stronger than others ;-) I see "net play" more as a way to discuss issues and see other people's opinions rather than as a way to prove "what people really are" or to decide on the validity of an argument by the number of posting UseNetters who support it. Chris. -- Chris Hitchcock, Dept. of Psychology chris@psych.toronto.edu University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario UseNet: I only read it for the CANADA M5S 1A1 .signatures