[net.women] Who needs net.women.only?

ewp@ihuxn.UUCP (08/25/83)

I'd like to start with two facts:

    1) White males are *not* the highest paid group per capita in the US.
       (Asian-Americans are - look it up if you don't believe me.  Of course
       this is completely irrelevant.)

    2) net.singles is not read/submitted to by *only* singles.  In fact, for
       a while it was dominated by married people and similar arguments took
       place there.

There is no way of segregating newsgroups by sex so why argue about it?  If
there are issues women on the net want to discuss, submit an article.  I don't
think the problem is having men use net.women, the problem is not enough women
do.  The net is a public forum for ideas, and perhaps some women are a little
intimidated by the lexical pugilism that sometimes develops.  It's nothing
women can't handle.  Laura Creighton dukes it out with the best of them.  Just
like in the real world, you can't wait for things to be handed to you, you
have to go out and grab them.  Do the women on the net want control of
net.women?  Then take control!  Don't ask for it.


not apologetic about being male,
Ed Pawlak
ihnp4!ihuxn!ewp