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From: carlton@masscomp.UUCP (Carlton Hommel)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: a gender difference
Message-ID: <690@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-May-85 17:44:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: masscomp.690
Posted: Sun May  5 17:44:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 02:09:43 EDT
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Reply-To: carlton@masscomp.UUCP (Carlton Hommel)
Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA
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Summary: 

In article <1452@reed.UUCP> thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) writes:
>Isn't it odd that the "pro-lifers" posting to this group
>are almost all men, while the "pro-choicers" are of both
>genders but more likely to be women?

You are making an unwarrented assumption, that the gender division of
net.abortion readers/posters is close to 50% male/ 50% female.  Computer
science and software engineering are (no flames, please; its not my fault)
male-dominated.  Many of those are batchelors, or even worse from the
standpoint of a social consiousness, college students, and have no interest
in net.abortion.  On the other hand, females with access to the net might
tend to find this group more interesting then, say, net.sports.hockey.  So,
we have the following pruning:

Male Programmers ------> Males interested in stating net positions  ---->
Males writing in net.abortion.
The people in this class tend to be the same people flocking to net.politics,
or net.religion.  Unless they have strong opinions about abortion, they will
tend to flame elsewhere.  Most males (in this group) are pro-life - whether
for moral or religous reasons.

Female Programmers ----> Females interested in stating net positions ---->
Females writing in net.abortion
Women in this group will be more liberal in their thinking.  After all, they
are going against 'conventional sterotypes' in having a computer career, of
all things, instead of making babies.  (Note - I'm all in favor of this.)

By the way, I am pro-dead-baby, but my wife is pro-life.

	Carl Hommel

Wife:  Pro-dead-baby!  Arrrrgh!
Husband:  Iffin they want it dead, and it's deformed, why not?