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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Racial/women's special interest groups
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Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 12:03:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 12:03:55 1983
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Oh, COME ON, the reason all of these groups exist (and the reason
white males as a class don't need one of their own) is that, by and large,
white males run the whole show! The groups are formed to exert pressure
for power concessions from this dominant class. It doesn't make too much
sense to form a special interest group to exert pressure on yourself, does it?

                                                Jeff Winslow

P.S. Sure, go ahead and form net.women.only. The male/female ratio of
contributors will quickly become the same as it is on net.women, though,
unless you want to teach terminals sex discrimination. Lovely idea, eh? :-)