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From: smann@ihu1g.UUCP (Sherry Mann)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Minutes of first meeting, Association for MEN in Computing
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 13:02:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 13:02:05 1984
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What makes the minutes of this meeting humorous,
and I did find them humorous,
is not that when applied to men,
the ridiculous of such thinking (applied to either gender)
becomes apparent,
but the merely the fact that it is not necessary to point
out that a "famous" composer was a man, or the writer of
a system was a man to prevent people from assuming that they
were women.
The reason women have to make a point of pointing out
the accomplishments of women is that if we don't, they won't
get acknowledged
The reason women form their own associations is because
they often don't have power in male dominated bastions.
Far from hurting women, far from creating a "separate but equal"
status, women's organizations and women's acknowledging the
accomplishments of women are helping women to become integrated
into society as a whole on a more equal basis.