laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (01/24/84)
This was a reply that i got which should have been a followup. --- Laura ***/ begin forwarded article /*** Laura, I feel I have to respond to your flame as I posted the original article causing it. I feel very strongly about people changing what I have said too. I feel that it is immoral, but can't really defend that position as words are nobody's private properties, nor are sentences. That was the reason I nearly didn't read the article. Now I don't know what the author of the article wanted to do (she joked about "translating" Jane Austen to her sons), and I don't want to know. What I found very interesting was the RESULT of what she did and the way I reacted to it. I didn't want to write about it because I didn't want to influence other people, but I entend to eventually write down my own reactions after I see how other people feel (I think that whether they are men or women will be quite signifi- cant). I hope this will clarify my intentions. Sophie Quigley