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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.sci
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
Message-ID: <670@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:23:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:23:05 1986
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In article <719@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> cheryl@batcomputer.UUCP (cheryl) writes:
>It worked.  There were 8 women and only 1 man the year *I* took AP Chem!
>And it didn't matter at all whether or not we had confidence in front of
>men or not, because all the men who *would* have taken it were too easily
>influenced *not* to take it--we started calling them chicken-shits later
>in the year.  Actually, it started out with 8 women and 2 men, but we women
>got one of the men to drop out by (a) intimidating him by working our
>buts off on the first few homework sets and pretending the material was
>easy and (b) telling him that if he had to work that hard to keep up with us,
>he'd probably be "HAPPIER" in Reagents' Chemistry.  We let up on ourselves
>once we had driven him out.  The other one was just a masochist and a 
>martyr so it didn't work on him.

are you PROUD you did this?

face it Cheryl, you just hate men on principle.  no exceptions.

Herb Chong, IBM Research...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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