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From: saquigley@watdaisy.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: on the "need" for support groups
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Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 14:10:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 18 14:10:07 1984
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I do agree with Judy that I do believe there is a need for support group as
such (for support) and that these groups do not necessarily foster hate.  
I do wonder however if there is such a need on the net.  Judging from the
contents of net.women, we have not been doing much supporting of each other,
but rather discussing topics of a general interest.  There is one support
group that is doing very well on the net, it is net.singles;  I don't think
this group fosters hate towards married people.  Maybe there is such a need
for women to help them deal with problems they encounter as women. .  I don't
see too much evidence of such a need, but then again, I don't see too much
evidence of women participating in the net in general; why? to you women
reading this, are you not interested in the net? if you are reading it
regularly but not posting, why? is it because the topics are not interesting,
you do not have enough time, or because you feel that the net is too
male-dominated for you to dare say anything.  If the latest is the case, then
maybe we do need to differentiate between net.women and net.social, keeping
the first one as a support group, but the second one as a arena for 
discussions on sex roles etc.   Until you women speak up, we won't know, and
there probably will not be any womenspace on the net as most of us women who
are already submitting are not too intimidated by men and do not feel a REAL
need for a support group on the net.  We can find such groups on our own if we
really want to.