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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: net.sexism
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 22:18:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 22:18:52 1984
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! <-- wombat confuser

Sorry, Sophie I think your proposals are a bit lop-sided. Net.women seems
to be doing ok as a place to discuss issues of interest to women, and
net.women.only seems to tell me, at least, that they don't want me there
for some odd reason. Maybe they talk about the rising costs of panty-hose
or something, I don't know; I don't really care. As a male, I probably
would not subscribe to net.men. It is my opinion that men don't feel the
same need to have their own private computer network to discuss
'biological issues' (new jock-strap designs? prophylactic installation
techniques?). 

Just as is the case with net.columbia (which is really about the Shuttle,
regardless of which craft is currently operational, but which retains the
name as an honorific to the first shuttle), so net.women may actually be
the forum to discuss humanism, but simply retains the name 'women' as a
paean to the original ideas surrounding its creation. I vote no against
net.men.

-- 

Gary Benson
John Fluke Mfg. Co.
Everett, WA, USA