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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med,net.women
Subject: Re: Saving Lives
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:53:06 EST
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> > [many detailed descriptions of sex acts]
> 
> This does not belong in net.women any more than it belongs in
> net.music or net.rec.birds.  Sure, women have sex, but so do
> people who birdwatch or listen to music.  Just because the 
> classification of women as a group is based on sexual anatomy
> does not make this a forum for discussion of sexual practices,
> or diseases incurred thereby.  
> 
> This newsgroup is intended for discussion of the economic, legal,
> social and political issues that affect women as individuals and
> as a group.  So keep your bloody cross-postings to yourself.

Without arguing too much about the appropriateness of cross-posting to
net.women (I can see arguments on both sides), I should mention that I know
Will, and his credentials as a committed feminist are impeccable.  I am
sure that he sent the message with the best of intentions--i.e., that
women, individually and as a class, should be informed about safe-sex
recommendations.  I found the tone of your article offensive in the
extreme, and a total overreaction.  There are far more polite ways of
suggesting that a subject be discussed elsewhere.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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