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- From: aragorn@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Steven J.)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:58:43 GMT
- Organization: Jobs With Peace at UWM
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- mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis) writes:
- : OK.
- : I just go a wad of mail, and am replying in turn. If this thread has extended
- : past my personal view of it so far, just douse my head in napalm and toss a
- : match.
- :
- : DS> Another factor that is really more prevalent in private BBS's than USENET,
- : > that a lot of men consider women-in-cyberspace as nothing more than potenti
- : > chewtoys.
- :
- : WHAT? Please expound...
- : I belong to one of the larger BBS's in the country, and I get all the main
- : board non-private mail, as well as a large number of conferences (this one,
- : for instance). I have yet to see any evidence that indicates that any male on
- : this or any of the 15 or so other boards I regularly call are looking for a
- : rawhide bone. This statement in itself is terribly sexist.
- : I'm afraid I'm gonna need some clarification on that point.
-
- I think what is being addressed here is what does indeed happen on
- multi-line BBS's of a chat-system nature. There are two such systems here
- in Milwaukee and, yes, women who call in are subjected to a certain amount
- of harrassment by the male users who are very much the majority. Also,
- there is a certain amount of sexual harrassment that exists on the system I
- am currently working on. Occasionally some male users feel it necessary to
- look for female users on the system, hassle them with write messages and
- then send them e-mail through ways in which it becomes increasingly
- difficult to track down the source. This happens on at least a monthly
- basis here. If this isn't sexual abuse, if not at least sexual harrassment,
- then what is?
-
-
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- Steve J. White
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