Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: On going to the moon Message-ID: <81@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 23:02:01 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.81 Posted: Sat Feb 1 23:02:01 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 17:26:45 EST Sender: mokhtar@ubc-visi.UUCP Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 21 Subject: Re: On going to the moon >>>> "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we send all of them ?" >>> I think we can. Let's get a government grant and do it. >> No matter how much you might have achieved, you must be a very unhappy person >> to say this. More unhappy than mean. (I said this) > And you have no sense of humor. In case you're not aware of it, this > is net.WOMEN. This is not net.jokes. If the women here want to make > fun of men once in a while, I think that is their right. Besides, it > was a funny quote. [ Phil Ngai ] Nobody has a "right" to make sexist jokes (men or women, net.women or elsewhere) and reverse sexism doesn't fix anything. I didn't think it was a funny quote and I have no problem with that. I guess I have no sense of humor for *this kind* of joke. Farzin Mokhtarian