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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Notes from the Underground
Message-ID: <1891@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 21:47:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.1891
Posted: Mon Sep 12 21:47:42 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Sep-83 05:43:35 EDT
References: megatest.115
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Well well well, a manager.  Knew there had to be some reason for the
flakiness.  Mr. Manager, your MCP qualities show through even with a
~200 line article.  Just like Bonzo Ronnie,  you try to say all the
right things ('I have some very good women friends', 'never seen a case
where a woman is paid less than a man', etc ad nauseam).  Just because
you haven't seen a case of pay discrimination doesn't mean that it's
a myth.  Perhaps Megatest (I assume that's the company) is very progressive,
but then why don't you say anything about working at home, or husband
and wife staggering working hours?  My (strictly theoretical) wife
could work 8 hours while I stay home, and then I could work 8 hours,
and if some of that can be done at home, well great!  It sounds quite
practical to me...

Apparently you didn't read the charter for net.women.only.  I personally
wish it wasn't necessary, but there's no lack of insensitive clods who
can't wait to jump all over someone for an article.  There's plenty
of misogynists who will reserve their best efforts for articles known
to be authored by women.  For instance, try to express an opinion on
makeup, and then 40 guys loudly proclaim that either it's essential
or worthless, thus destroying the original discussion on brand names.
As long as there are so many *boors* on the net, things like net.women.only
will continue to be necessary...

				Never met a manager I didn't mistrust,
				stan the leprechaun hacker
				utah-cs!shebs