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From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: domination (plus a proposal for mod.women?)
Message-ID: <669@utai.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:34:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: utai.669
Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:34:20 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 16:30:58 EDT
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Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
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Summary: 

In article <40@csi> rburns@csi (Randall Burns) writes:
>
>net.women.only already exists for the purpose Karla described. If she doesn't
> like it, she should considers started a moderated newsgroup rather than 
>browbeat people.
>
>I think Lori & Karla's  remarks smack of sexism & seperatism.

net.women.only is dead and gone, thanks to a lack of willingness on the
part of men to respect the group's name (i.e. -- leave it at "women only").
Or so I heard.  It would appear that certain men would post to it
complaining about the topics women wanted to discuss.  Apparently they felt
that women should discuss rape, feminine hygiene products, and matters
dealing with a certain time of the month, rather than such mundane topics
as how to clean panty-hose, inter-personal relationships from a woman's
point of view, etc.  (Sounds a lot like net.women, doesn't it, where some
men seem to try to dictate what topics get talked about, rather than treat
this group as a meeting-place to learn about each other and what is
important to each other.  [DISCLAIMER:  This is not to say that *all* men
contributing to this group are like this;  this is not to say that *all* women
contributing to this group are not like this.  It seems to me, though, that
the women do a better job of this.])

Fortunately, there are enough posters who believe that this is a good spot
to try to come to an understanding about men and women to make it worth-
while wading through the drivel/garbage/crap that comes from viewing this
group as an arena for combat.  

You may be right -- maybe there should be a mod.women newsgroup in addition
to/instead of the mailing list?  Any opinions out there on this?
-- 
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4

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