mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason) (01/15/84)
Pat Collins asks: > WHY is it that net.women.only is being FILLED with debate about > CIRCUMCISION???!!!! I know how the whole thing started (unnecessary > hysterectomies discussion), but I find it difficult not to see this > is indicative of the way so many women's concerns are forgotten while > men's concerns take over. (It's not that most women don't care about > that is important to men. That is not what I'm saying.) It is obvious > that men could find LOTS to talk about in net.men, judging from how much > they have to say about themselves in net.women. First let me say that I agree 1000%. net.women.only was created as a forum for women to discuss things without male interference. Many people felt that it would die a quick death (including me...I guess we men figure if we're not involved, the discussion can't sustain itself :~) (a smile with nose slightly out of joint)) but we were wrong, there are ongoing discussions that I'm sure serve a useful purpose to some of the women on the net (I know they've helped my wife). Let us males leave the group alone! I believe that circumcision was first mentioned by a woman contributer, but that is no reason for a wholesale entrance by the masculine hordes. If men must comment on something raised in .women.only, move it to .women (in the followup edit, remove the .only in line 1!) I'm sure most people who read .only read this group as well, and the discussion can continue here (I'm not sure net.women is any more appropriate, but I tend to look on this group as net.human) I'm not sure we men would have so much to say if we had a group of our own! Seems to me so many men read this group because there are so many interesting topics raised by the women who read it. Without the source of topics, net.men would probaly dry up in a few weeks. (This is only 1/2 a challenge similar to the one that led to the creation of .women.only) Enough...comments etc. welcome. -- {dalcs,dciem,garfield,hcr,musocs,orcatech,qucis,rhodnius,sask,titan,trigraph, ubc-vision,utzoo,watmath,allegra,cornell,decvax,decwrl,ihnp4,uw-beaver} !utcsrgv!mason Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG