chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is bits) (05/14/85)
Mark, you're taking this discussion too seriously if you haven't seen any levity. If *I* remember correctly, this started from the posting about the problems caused by foreign women working in the mideast. I posted something I thought pretty silly about if the men are having problems with women, it's the men who should be kept home. What proposal could be more ridiculous? What's wrong: paranoid? :-) Don't worry, I don't have a knife, or even the deadly spoon. :-) And all the time there are net postings offensive to women. Am I supposed to allow jokes about rape go by just because they might be funny to men, but they can shut off my jokes about locking men up? L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa
chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is bits) (05/18/85)
Hmm, Greg has a point about bad neighborhoods, but I live in a "nice" neighborhood--high rent, mixed races and religions. I haven't had any scary experiences, except for those times that a strange man catches up with me and makes conversation (and sometimes proposes something more intimate) and reminds me that I shouldn't be walking home alone. I realize they're just being friendly (and probably beer-filled), but why do they feel they have to remind me I shouldn't be out alone after dark? The ONLY time I get hassled is by people like this. So nice of them to remind me to be scared in an environment I've walked safe in for 10 years; their behavior is certainly reinforcing of their reminder. Fools' paradise, maybe. L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa
mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) (05/19/85)
> Mark, you're taking this discussion too seriously if you haven't > seen any levity. If *I* remember correctly, this started from the > posting about the problems caused by foreign women working in the > mideast. I posted something I thought pretty silly about if the men > are having problems with women, it's the men who should be kept home. I was responding to the discussion around another article in which someone else said that her sister thot there should be a curfew for men, since the current status quo was pretty much a curfew for women imposed on them by men. Your jokes I can take (barely :-)), and I sympathise with your feelings about certain jokes posted to the net, but I don't thibk it was really your article I was responding to. Mark Modig ihnp4!sftri!mom Seriously, what's the deadly spoon? Is this some sort of new martial arts technique? :-)