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- From: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Women in CP/Industria
- Message-ID: <3719.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:55:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis)
- Lines: 62
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- KH> In a previous article, mykel.alvis@the-matrix.com (Mykel Alvis) says:
- > > men, makeup, hair, clothes, fashion, soap operas? I'm willing
- >Careful here, you're stereotyping :)
- KH> Actually, no. :) I'm basing this on observation of other
- > females I know - the more 'normal' ones I happen to live with,
- > others that I have known, etc. Sure, they wander off on other
- > things, but typical content deals with less than highly
- > educational topics. There there's me and the people I talk to -
- > psychology theories, gaming, cyberpunk, and whether or not
- > wind chill factor affects the freezing point of water. ;)
- Ok. I got all those topics with my friends except for the wind chill thing :)
- >from your list) based on the measure created by society. But that's sort
- >of off-topic.
- KH> Actually, I think that's right on topic. The area of obsession
- > that's considered acceptable is to a large extent set by society.
- True. I just thought I was moving away from your original point. Sorry, but
- at that hour and with that much caffiene (sp?, I'm a guy after all) in my
- system, I try to remain focused on-topic so I don't wander off and talk about
- those little men that leave me messages in my sleep. ;)
-
- >While I'm at it, would you like peace on earth, good will towards men, and a
- >cure for the common cold? :)
- KH> Go fer it. ;)
-
- Too big a job for me. I work late on Mondays and Wednesdays. :)
-
- >It's great that you have a penchant for computers (assumed that you do). But
- KH> Would I be here if I weren't? :)
- Maybe. I have taught some technophobic people to do mail. Plus, I get all
- my mail digested from a local BBS, so it's a little easier. But since you are
- here, and responded to the questionairre correctly, we'll be sending you
- you official Techno-Geek Secret Public Key Encryption Ring in EMail any
- day now. Allow 6 to 10 cycles for delivery.
- >that makes you something of an anomoly (sp?) in our current society.
- KH> Pffooo.... don't remind me....
- Sorry.
- >Major changes in the mental makeup of society are interesting to think about,
- >but really don't exist except as amassed groups of tiny changes. As I stated
- >elsewhere, social change is rarely achieved in any positive way by major
- >upheaval. It occurs best in large numbers of small ways. Shaping, a
- >therapy techique of the behaviorists, gets some of the best results of any.
- >It's method is small changes, but keep pushing for the goal.
- KH> Shaping, however, can be long and tedious, and does tend to be
- > 1) subtle and 2) easily sabotaged. There was a study a few
- Definitely, but it does produce some lasting change. All it takes is for
- some shaped individual to raise his/her children in that manner, and then
- die off for the change to be pretty permanant. I think we've seen the way
- that shaping can be sabatoged (sp? again, but I'm still a guy) here in this
- thread and relateds. The posts that have gone on re: Robosex are a prime
- example of the response generated by overt assault. {Stop me before I get
- too serious....}
-
- KH> Kitten
- > Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R.G.
- Yeah, but Dr. Whatshisname and his Suicide Machine have a serious cure for
- what ails us. :)
-
- Mykel
-
-
- -- SPEED 1.20 [NR]: f Jane Fonda/B.Clinton/D.Quayle. Whos been to Viet Nam?
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