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From: arnold@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what to call a female wizard
Message-ID: <34af18f5.ae48@apollo.uucp>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 14:57:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.34af18f5.ae48
Posted: Tue May  5 14:57:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 7-May-87 04:12:47 EDT
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Reply-To: arnold@apollo.UUCP (Ken Arnold)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <154@srs.UUCP> matt@srs.UUCP (Matt Goheen) writes:
>Around here, we call them "ugly".
>				Please don't flame me,
>				as Dave says, "It's just a joke!"

It's a pretty insulting and degrading kind of joke.  One which you
could probably have avoided making.  So why did you decide to insult
all the female UNIX wizards?  Could it be because you are childish and
sexist, or possibly threatened?  Jokes like this are the kind of thing
which women complain make them feel unwelcome in technical fields.

At least the person who posed the question was only guilty of not
looking it up in a dictionary, and probably meant no sexism.  Your
response offends me, and probably most people who know that
intelligence does not correlate with genitalia or other sexual
charactersitics.

		Ken Arnold