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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: Gregg Mackenzie on the elimination of Cheryl (FLAME)
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 10:24:40 EST
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Ellen Eades:

> > That's just because it's all a subversive plot and we're all against
> > you.  We've all come to realize that Cheryl is the only one who 
> > *really* knows what's going on in our (men's) sick, twisted little 
> > minds.  The only thing we can do now is eliminate Cheryl and hope 
> > she hasn't spread the truth too far.  We're gonna get you Cheryl. 
> > You can't hide .... our people are everywhere...
> 
> THIS IS *NOT* *FUNNY*!!!!
> 
> Gregg did not attach *any* smiley-faces to this posting and I
> intend to treat it seriously.  Threats by men toward women are
> not in any way humorous.  I think any man who enjoys saying
> "We're gonna get you Cheryl" has a SICK mind and a CRUEL one.

I used to think that some things were so patently obvious that to attach
labels describing them would almost be insulting the reader's intelligence
("This is a joke, you idiot, see?")  But then, the tradition here is "when
in doubt, flame", and maybe I'd best revise that opinion!  Interestingly
enough, I notice that Gregg's blatantly anti-male stereotyping ("sick,
twisted little minds") passed without comment.  (No, I refuse to insult
your intelligence by annotating that last sentence!).

> The fact is that women are *killed* *every* *day* in the United
> States by men.  

Are you suggesting that this is, in some fundamental way, more
significant than the fact that men are *killed* *every* *day* by men
(and, I dare say, women) too?  
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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