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- From: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Message-ID: <3797.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:16:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Lines: 42
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- SJ> 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 ext
- > : past my personal view of it so far, just douse my head in napalm and toss
- > : 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 poten
- : > chewtoys.
- SJ> :
- > : WHAT? Please expound...
- > : I belong to one of the larger BBS's in the country, and I get all the mai
- > : board non-private mail, as well as a large number of conferences (this on
- > : for instance). I have yet to see any evidence that indicates that any ma
- > : this or any of the 15 or so other boards I regularly call are looking for
- > : rawhide bone. This statement in itself is terribly sexist.
- > : I'm afraid I'm gonna need some clarification on that point.
-
- SJ> 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?
-
- Wow, sorry about their plight. Boot the shitheads off the system if it
- comes to that. But I'm still afraid you've made a generalization that
- you have only backed up with one (maybe 2) examples. More evidence
- is necessary before making such a statement. I've put out a call for it
- here, you should there. When you get results, post them and we'll talk
- about it then. Should take me a few weeks to get people off their cans :)
-
- -Mykel
-
-
- -- SPEED 1.20 [NR]: "Mykel Wins!"
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