Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!cheryl From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med,net.nlang.africa,net.singles,net.women Subject: Re: Saving Lives Message-ID: <709@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 20:50:40 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.709 Posted: Thu Nov 21 20:50:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 04:38:52 EST References: <3000@sun.uucp> <697@lasspvax.UUCP> <54@midas.UUCP> Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Distribution: net Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 63 Xref: watmath net.motss:2286 net.med:2818 net.nlang.africa:147 net.singles:9760 net.women:8157 Summary: In article <54@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes: >In article <697@lasspvax.UUCP> cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) writes: >>In article <3000@sun.uucp> wild@sun.uucp (Will Doherty) writes: >>>Let people know about how AIDS works. >>> >>> [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. > >But medical issues are right out, huh? AIDS *is* a social and medical >issue that affect women as individuals and as a group. And it also affects birdwatchers and music-lovers and unix-wizards. So why choose to pollute OUR group with this mindless drivel quoted out of the New York Post or some similarly inane publication? I mean, you people are only displaying your tasteless reading habits (but then, so am I by continuing to subscribe to this newsgroup). Now if the posting were about something which affected only women, then it would make some sense. How about a posting on how *pregnancy* is incurred, with detailed descriptions of sex acts. Go on. I DARE you. Nyaa-Nyaa-Nyaa. > >Along the lines of recent theorizing by Matt Crawford, I will now ask >if perhaps the reason you objected to this article was that you >feel threatened by detailed descriptions of sex acts? > > Jeff Winslow Oh, HIM! I treasure the memory of ALL of the sex-acts I've performed Matt Crawford! HA! Now I can leave you wondering whether I've actually performed sex acts with Matt Crawford; remember, my statement remains logically correct and true even if I have never lepton his hadron, excited his fundamental modes, accepted an injection of hot magma into my steaming caldera, intersected his orbital, or even licked his throbbing popsicle. I will still maintain that a discussion of AIDS is inappropriate for this newsgroup, not because it affects more men than women, but because it is fundamentally absurd to assume that a classification of people based on sex makes sex a primary concern. -Cheryl -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheryl Stewart Systems Development lasspvax!cheryl@cornell.arpa Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering 265 Olin Hall Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------