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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Net.sexism
Message-ID: <2618@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 13:39:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 13:39:47 1985
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> In article <258@ihlpa.UUCP> zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes:
> >> I think it is due to testosterone poisonning myself.  The only reason
> >> you disgusting people don't sit down when you're doing your business
> >> is that you somehow think it is more manly to do it standing up.
> >> -- 
> >> Sophie Quigley
> >
> >Frankly I think it stems from fear of deflating ther male ego because
> >they would find out the silly *thing* really wont dip into the water.
> >
> >Jeanette L. Zobjeck
> 
> It's a dick, Jeanette, a cock, penis, etc., not a *thing*.  I can understand
> that you've probably never seen one, you frigid bitch, but I'm certain you
> must have read about it.  You and Sophie ought to get together some night
> for a good squat and talk all about the male anatomy.
> 
> And, hey, how about this:  Six guys can all use the same toilet at the same
> time.  I'd like to see six girls do that:  the girl on the bottom sure would
> have sticky thighs, eh?  And a real man can stir his drink with his dick, and
> caulk windows and bathroom tiles with it.  What the hell can you do with your
> cooze, slut?  Pick up quarters?  The hard way?
> 
>     Scott R. Turner
>     ARPA:  (now) srt@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA  (soon) srt@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
>     UUCP:  ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srt
>     SPUDNET: ...eye%srt@russet.spud

If the women who attend UCLA get this kind of verbal abuse from 
this {fill in the blank}, is it any wonder that women don't make
up 51% of engineering students?  This kind of name-calling, while
infantile, is tolerable in net.flame, but entirely out of place
in net.women.
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