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- From: kxh16@po.CWRU.Edu (Kathleen Hardy)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:38:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: kxh16@po.CWRU.Edu (Kathleen Hardy)
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- 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 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.
- 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.
- That's happened out here in Cleveland as well - although most
- of the females can give as good as they get, and there are more
- than enough males who are willing to rack up brownie points by
- lambasting transgressors that it's not as common as it could be.
- >basis here. If this isn't sexual abuse, if not at least sexual harrassment,
- >then what is?
- 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'.
-
- Kitten
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