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From: maslak@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 15:25:07 EDT
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Yes, well, now you've also had a chance to see the kind of behavior
that so enraged most of the readers of soc.women.

Mr. Lippman consistently

-Quoted material out of context with the deliberate intent of
distorting its meaning.

-Refused to recognize any sort of satire, metaphor, or allusion.

-Insisted on nitpicking and wasting our time in circular debates.

-Tried to destroy other's arguments by ignoring their assumptions.

-Imputed to others ideas and positions that they had never taken.

Mr. Lippman seems to think he is the injured party in all this. He
is not. The injured parties are the women of the net who have to
find ways to deal with Lippman and the others of his ilk who have
nothing better to do than barge in to soc.women like ignorant bulls
in intellectual china shops, ignore the forest for the trees,
and then cry foul when they get back what they dish out. 
With all the metaphors in that last sentence, I'm sure it will go
right over Lippman's head... and my apologies for the net.bandwidth,
but I wax poetic when aroused.

Valerie Maslak