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Subject: The double standard.
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 12:29:31 EDT
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Recently a male posted a personal attack on me directly, without
authorization, to a moderated group where such an attack is totally
irrelevant and inappropriate.  He did this because, having a penis and
living in patriarchy, he knew that he would suffer no repercussions.

Compare this with my experience with two sites, the Well and chinet,
who removed my password because I RESPONDED to personal attacks on me,
and a third site, gryphon, where the SA, Greg Laskin, had a violent
mood swing and removed my access to an unmoderated group, soc.women, due
to his "feeling" that I "might" respond with justifiable anger to some
of the personal attacks on me.

I have received several sympathetic responses from males overseas, and even got
two from here within the United States, where the average technical
person is a sexist male who reads at a 6th grade level.  (Of course I
received a large amount of support from feminist women and our one feminist 
male, but as a group we are totally powerless to effect changes in a 
patriarchy, and marked as pariahs simply for supporting women's rights.)  

--Mark