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From: era1987@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: soc.women,news.misc
Subject: }I'm still here.
Message-ID: <3995@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 12:28:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 12:28:19 1987
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Keywords: AbdulRahman, soc.women, credit card, Nazis, pronouns
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I have contacted the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League regarding the
sadistic personal attacks on me by AbdulRahman Dennis Lomax of the Well
(Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link).  My relatives died in the gas ovens and
death camps of Nazi Germany, and I never told AbdulRahman that I would
work for Nazis--in fact I had no idea that the Well was a fascist
propaganda organ when I signed up.  They fraudulently advertised as a
free speech, public access BBS.

As for my "disappearance," from places where I am subjected to sadistic
personal attacks, when AbdulRahman made sadistic attacks on me in public
conferences on the Well, I retreated to my own conference, when AbdulRahman
attacked me in my conference, and refused to leave at my request unless
I issued a formal banning statement, in which case AbdulRahman threatened
to sue me, I retreated to a private conference, but I never threatened
to sue the Well, as AbdulRahman has many times, and I didn't "disappear,"--
they pulled my password.  I do not, however, have any obligation to
remain anyplace where I am subjected to sadistic personal attacks.

As to my having a credit card, yes, I have a credit card.  Unfortunately,
I was the only single woman without children at home on the Well at that
time, and AbdulRahman who claims to have been married more than once, has
several children, and is apparently behind in child support, made strenuous
efforts to get me to turn over my credit card.  I don't care if AbdulRahman
makes sadistic attacks on me on every BBS and network in the world, I will
*not* repeat NOT turn over my credit card to AbdulRahman and that's final.

As for pronouns, when you refer to a glass in Spanish as el vaso, you
use the masculine or inclusive pronouns because the word vaso has a
masculine or inclusive ending and pronouns follow the noun, not because
glasses have penises.  And when you refer to a cup as la taza, you use
the feminine or diminutive pronouns because the word taza has a feminine
or diminutive ending, not because a cup has a uterus and ovaries.

I have been told by people still on the Well, that AbdulRahman is
continuing to make personal attacks on women there, and that they don't
dare pull AbdulRahman's password because of AbdulRahman's threats to sue them.
Obviously they can and do control what people say, since they did pull
my password.  Obviously, if the threat of a law suit will stop them, I
did not threaten to sue them as AbdulRahman has on several occasions.
Moreover, Well hosts get free time, in return for which they are asked to
be courteous.  AbdulRahman has never been courteous and has never been
required to abide by host rules.  As far as I know, AbdulRahman continues
to get free time because AbdulRahman does not have a credit card and
cannot pay for connect time on the Well.

I hope that someday soc.women can become a moderated group so that
netiquette can be enforced and personal attacks not permitted.  But I
would not like to see a man or an anti-feminist woman host soc.women.
Even AbdulRahman admitted that the federal courts granted me the right
to my name and to equal terms of address, but it is obvious that AbdulRahman
does not respect the laws of this country any more than AbdulRahman
respects netiquette or Well rules.  

I apologize for posting this to the world, but since the defamation
about me was posted to the entire world, I feel that I must post my
response accordingly.  I waited until my anger had subsided, but it will
never completely disappear until the personal attacks on me cease and
that may never happen.  I'd like Sherry, Pat, aMAZon, Ellen Eades, Cheryl,
Valerie, or any other of the strong feminist women in soc.women to moderate
the group, and I hope that a woman who is more concerned with equal rights
than with forcing women to conform to the traditonal oppressive role
society has historically imposed on women, will volunteer to moderate
soc.women, so ad hominem attacks and postings not of concern to women
could be refused and therefore would have to be posted to soc.men.
                                        Too many women have left the net due to the hostile atmosphere in soc.women.
If we are to encourage women to enter the male-dominated field of
telecommunications, we will have to make it a less hostile place.

--Mark