abhay (01/31/83)
How come we have most of the items in net.women by men. Maybe there should be a category net.men so that the women can express their opinion.
wakeup (02/02/83)
One possible reason for more articles by men than women is that more men
are reading this net then women because more men then women have access.
I think that the tone of the original observation is negative and
improper. Improper, because I think it is healthy, educational, and
socially wise for men and women to be concerned about each other's
feeling and thoughts. I also feel that men play an important part
in so called women's issues. Men are often the cause of problems and
no matter how you look at it are involved either directly or indirectly
in solutions to those problems. So men, keep reading and offering
your input.
From a man who careswdr (02/02/83)
The problem is not the lack of women correspondants or surplus of males but a deviation from the purpose to be "supportive of women" or some such, as the initial discusion in net.news.group said. this has turned into net.abortion. It seems the majority of Male-oriented articles have been anti-abortion. I suggest the ABORTION: moral or immoral? discussion move to net.politics. What we should discuss here is how to deal with the psychic shock felt after a decsion to abort or not to abort is made EITHER WAY and must be dealt with; whether is should be outlawed is not the issue FOR THIS NEWS-GROUP. (or perhaps it belongs in NET.FLAME !!!!!) This news group's short history indicates the problem sensitive people have whenever they congregate in public: they get surrounded by hecklers. ALL OF YOU WHO WANT TO DEBATE LAW AND MORALLITY AND RELIGION, GO TO NET.FLAME. P.S.: I did not intend to submit anything to this newsgroup when I subscribed. I subscribed to 'get in touch' with what was going on. I have enjoyed following the net.women articles; I have not enjoyed the low debating tactics used by both sides in net.abortion. Bill Ricker :-(
janetr (02/03/83)
I agree with Bill Ricker--I'd like to move away from the political flaming and hear from people who are willing to discuss more personal aspects of "women's issues." I have a question about personal experiences of abortion. In particular, has anyone out there it netland gone through the experience of deciding whether to abort following amniocentesis? Amnio is put forth in the popular press as a *simple* procedure to women who are considering pregnancy after age 35. But I wonder how simple it would be to deal with the emotional effects of aborting a very much wanted but very ill baby. I also wonder what kind of denial is going on that the media puts forth the good news (now you don't have to have a Downs Syndrome baby if you don't want one) without talking about the bad (the test results aren't known until almost the fifth month of pregnancy, and the only method of abortion available is induced labor at a time when you will already have felt the baby move). I haven't seen anything in the media dealing with this, and I wonder if any of you have thought about it or dealt with it directly. No flames or moral indignation, please.