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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Subject: Re: REASON no Ladies
- Message-ID: <crystal.721856205@glia>
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <perry.29@bobcat.lmc.edu> <1992Nov12.145711.28458@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov15.022931.11354@eskimo.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:36:45 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In <1992Nov15.022931.11354@eskimo.com> wix@eskimo.com (Dennis Wicks) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov12.145711.28458@bmerh85.bnr.ca> don't writes:
- >>In article <perry.29@bobcat.lmc.edu>, perry@bobcat.lmc.edu (Braxton Perry ) writes:
- >>|> Gentlemen, some of you (not all of you) have been very rude to the ladies.
- >>|> Some of you need to send apologies.
- >>|> Ladies, there are gentlemen left in the world.
- >>|> Have a nice day.
- >>
- >>I am totally annoyed when people use the words "ladies" and "gentlemen",
- >>especially with such a tone. So let's be rude to this JERK!
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- >Sheesh!! Why is it that in nearly every group that whenever someone
- >uses some non-PC gender specific term, there are always several
- >people who will jump in and flame them for it.
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- >Guys/gals, boys/girls, ladies/gentlemen, etc. What difference
- >does it make? Are so many people so insecure that even the use
- >of a gender specific term causes them to go into flight-or-fight
- >mode? Or is it just the impersonality of the net?
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- >As my dad was wont to say, "Call me anything you want, except
- >late for dinner!"
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- THIS is why "no women" are answering ads. The posters show their true
- colors by the way they talk and flame. Since the majority of the net is
- nothing *but* flaming people, as Dennis says, why would women even want to
- bother to look here?
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- I dropped this group, but still pop in every few weeks to see if anything
- has changed. Nope. Still flaming strong. Bye...
-
- Crystal
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