jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (08/29/83)
Judging from the (shall we say) strange letter which Laura got, I would say that there are now USENET sites in mental institutions. Not that this unnamed woman's feelings are not understandable, but her total inability to apply her own apparent standards to herself and her percieved peer group are indicators that something is seriously wrong with her. As for her thinking Laura is male, it's just another example of "if the facts don't fit your theory, change the facts". I believe there are some people around who actually see no problem with that statement.
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/01/83)
If you think that my news article was rather hostile (yes, folks, I got mail that said that I shouldn't be so hostile) then be thankful that you didn't receive the mail I sent personally to the account which I also cc'd to the root on that machine. Well, I got a response from the root of that machine. (No name, but it came from that account). It went on at great length about a project that had just been finished in the nick of time, and a drunken office party. I get the impression that that whole office is terrified that I might send a copy of the original letter to management, who I infer is not wonderfully supportive of the idea of parties in the office, let alone somebody's feminist views. Well you are safe, because we ran out of space on this machine and I deleted all my mail except for the few items which I knew were worth saving, and while that mail message was rather startling it was not worth keeping in my opinion. I honestly do not know whether I ought to be pleased that this mail came out as a result of an office drunk. (If it did -- as I recall there were no spelling mistakes though several grammar errors). I have been rather drunk myself, after all. I can remember one occasion when I went down to the waterfront with 2 friends and drank 2 large bottles of champagne, and proceeded to throw rocks into the lake while making suitable comments about the ancestry of the designers of the RL02 -- BUT I cannot really see myself sending mail to a stranger accusing them to be a "sexual deviant and liar". Is this what other people do when drunk? laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura
kmw@iheds.UUCP (09/01/83)
Would whoever sent Laura the "put males where they belong" letter
speak up? Was it legit? Was it a joke?
>From Laura's paraphasing, I have a hard time thinking it was legit.
It sounds more like a feminist-hater spitting sarcasm than a feminist.
-Kathy W.