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From: rutgers!snark.uu.net!eric@purdue.edu (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: Women and Usenet
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Date: 18 Jan 89 23:12:33 GMT
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In <6227@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> pedersen@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Sharon L. Pedersen) writes:
>Which I don't agree with--the personal is political,

This really jarred me, coming as it did near the end of what I considered an
otherwise excellent and revelatory posting on one woman's experience of the
net.

I think it reflects a belief which, though common, is both false and
dangerous. I have posted a discussion of the nature of the danger to
talk.politics.theory.

Yes, I hope you will work on fearing being attacked less; remember, it's
all just ones and zeros....
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