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- From: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Message-ID: <3798.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:21:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
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- KH> In a previous article, aragorn@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Steven J.) says:
- >mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis) writes:
- >: DS> Another factor that is really more prevalent in private BBS's than USENE
- >: > that a lot of men consider women-in-cyberspace as nothing more than pote
- >: > chewtoys.
- >: WHAT? Please expound...
- >: I belong to one of the larger BBS's in the country, and I get all the main>:
- >: for instance). I have yet to see any evidence that indicates that any male
- >: 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.
- KH> Actually, that statement in itself is terribly accurate. If you
- > were going to harass a woman for kicks, would you do it openly
- > where any shining knight wanna be can rip you apart? No.
- >: 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.
- KH> That's happened out here in Cleveland as well - although most
- This is amazing! Am I so blind that I never get to see any of this shit?
- But the point is that the original statement made reference to a _lot_
- of men, and I've still seen no statistics. Waiting.....
- KH> Annoying as hell, IMO. The system I'm on, the Cleveland FreeNet,
- > is in the habit of yanking accounts from people who do it, so
- > that tends to keep things 'friendly'.
- Seems like the reasonable thing to do, initially. Followed closely by
- drawing and quartering.
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- Mykel
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