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From: ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women,net.news.group
Subject: net.women.only
Message-ID: <451@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 13:55:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 13:55:50 1983
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        "the forum is still not one in which I feel free to discuss
        some of the things I'd like to discuss, and I know I'm not
        alone in feeling this way."

Here is my vote for net.women.only!  There are many  subjects  of
interest to women which the men who dominate this newsgroup would
probably find silly, tiresome, or otherwise objectionable -so the
subjects  are never raised.  Even "liberated" women get a bit in-
timidated by articles from men with attitudes like this:

        --------------------------------------------------------
        Conclusions: If it really makes a difference to you
        whether I say 'he', 'she', or 'it' in a generic context,
        then you're probably narrow-minded, bigoted, or insecure,
        in which case I probably wouldn't care about your opinion,
        or want your drivel using filespace on my machine. Go
        suck your thumb.
        --------------------------------------------------------

Perhaps, as someone suggested, many of the discussions common  to
net.women  would  be  more  appropriate in a "net.people".  But I
think we would still need a net.women.only.  The purpose need not
be  to reject input from men, but simply to make it CLEAR that it
is a forum by, for and about women -and that men  who  object  to
the  content  are welcome to restrict themselves to using all the
rest of the net.

PLEASE don't misunderstand us, guys!  We *LIKE* you, but this  is
an  issue  that  had bothered some of us women for quite a while,
and (thanks to Liz) we finally found the nerve to mention it.

                                        Ginger Grover
                                        ssc-vax!ginger