NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/soc/men/21582

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From: [e-mail] (Dan Welch)
Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Seperatists etc.
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Date: 21 Dec 92 17:24:37 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dances with Drums) writes:
>>Face it, you put a bunch of computer
>>nerds in a room, and it will likely turn to tech talk.  If women are
>>there, those same conversations often don't occur -- different topics
>>are discussed.
>
>Absolutely false, in my experience.

Absolutely *true*, though, in mine.  In fact, I get pressure from women
to *not* talk about technical stuff, even if I have an inclination to.
I have been subjected to any number of glares and impatient gestures when
co-workers and I discuss computers around non-computer-literate women;
no such thing happens around non-computer-literate men.  The most common
thing heard: "Oh, God, they're talking computers, again," accompanied by
a roll of the eyes.

Daniel Welch
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"The bottom line of the First Amendment is that pornography stays.  Our bottom
line is that pornography goes.  Eventually, we will win."

            - Catherine MacKinnon