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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: More on the ever popular subjet of Piracy...
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Date: 7 Jun 89 15:45:12 GMT
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Kreme@cup.portal.com (Lewis Kreme Butler) writes:
>I wrote:
>>>Note:  Ever notice how 99.9% of all pirates are Male?  Wonder why....
>
>Shawn wrote:
>>You could say the same thing about many computer-related activities.
>
>No, my whole point is that there are plenty of women on services like Portal,
>are wuite a few on most of the BBS's I call, and there are quite a lot spread
>around USENET in general,  SUre, they are a minority, but certainly not 
>0.1%, while among pirates, I have yet to meet ONE female pirate or hacker.
>
>I think this is a tad odd.  There must be a reason, No?

Of all computer users (outside work applications):
o Most are male.
o Most of the programmers are male.
o Most are not pirates.

But it looks like you're trying to imply that males are prone to piracy, while
females are not.  If you ignore the fact that there are fewer females than
males using or programming computers outside work applications, then it's
pretty easy to leap to a conclusion like that.  But it doesn't make sense to
ignore that fact, since that's a major reason.

I won't go so far as to say that what you seem to be implying is false, but
I'm not as ready as you are to say that if there were an equal number of
females that none of them would be pirating.

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