cael@sdchema.UUCP (Cynthia Livingston) (08/31/83)
Frankly folks, I have my suspicions about this new newsgroup net.women.only.... One can restrict access to various places with passwords. However I've never known of a universal, or instinctive female 'passwd'. Perhaps my mother never passed it on to me. Thus I put forth this question; how do women.only plan to police this new group? My terminal has never inquired to my sex, neither have any of the programs I tend to use. I will really worry when I have to present my birth certificate and photo-id just to read and post news. Next it will be blood tests and chromosome checks, which could eliminate those female athletes using anabolic steroids (no matter how unethical you feel it is to cheat athletically). What is the purpose of yet another minority newsgroup ?? I have been chastised by my roomate for not keeping up on the news lately. The task is almost impossible with out personal sacrifices. My roomate reads the news, I go windsurfing. Needless to say he's a male (however this SHOULD NOT be misconstrued as proof that Laura Creighton is male!) -- Last fall, I went to Washington D.C. for one week, came back and almost drowned in one of those newsfloods. In seven days I was no less than 2500 articles behind. A perfectionist, a true aficionado must more every page 'lest there be a worthy article. I am very lucky to have a roommate who makes note of said worthy articles, whether or not he approves of my dates. But back to the problem. I question the purpose of net.women.only. Such an animal can not exist at this time on the net, without male vs female detecting devices. It could be compiled into a digest and sent, to discriminating females, by subscription, once a month. Which is really one of the times I am bothered about being a woman. Truly, if net.women.only exists to rag upon men; men should be aware of it... Perhaps it should be called net.penis-envy, or net.what-i-really-want-men-to-know. After all I used to have many good cases of penis-envy.. It soulds vulgar to some, but is of daily concern to others. For instance; I just hate to pee in my wetsuit. Yet when I am racing various types of boats, well... what will you do ??? Fortunately there are now various sorts of funnel/and or diaper like devices one can slip snuggly into their foul weather gear or wetsuit. These come with an attached hose, which conveniently slips out the provided slot for the male counterpart... WELL GIRLS, NOW DOES THIS BELONG IT NET.WOMEN.ONLY ?? OR NET.HOW-NOT-TO-GET-CYSTITIS?? By the way, in a real pinch, the guy still ends up having to worry about getting his wetsuit yucko, because, yes, you guessed it, he still has to fumble (and dance and prance !). WELL, at the risk of receiving as much hate mail as Laura... I'll think of looking into one of those devices as mentioned in <3008@mgweed.UUCP>... (the Telstar device). But once the auto- finger-print-checkers are attatched to every terminal, it'll all be over. A formerly silent netter, Cindy Livingston UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!cael PS Hi Armando !!!