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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,alt.feminism,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Practise what you preach? (was:what is sexist?)
- Message-ID: <22lN03RHbcVf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:08:13 GMT
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- muffy@anableps.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
-
- }Well, let's look at this. First, I was posting in alt.feminism, not
- }soc.men. I do not know why it is that people keep cross-posting
- }everything to soc.men. I have not cross-posted any of my posts to that
- }group, but I do reply to all the groups that a posting was originally
- }put in. Presumably, while you may consider soc.men to be your personal
- }space, I, as a "well-known net feminist," can consider alt.feminism to
- }be at least partially mine.
-
- This may -- note I say "may" -- be a source of at least a tiny part of
- the problem here. I have been reading all of these "what is sexist"
- (and the preceding thread) postings in soc.men. Perhaps we all tend
- to slant our view of what is posted -- and correspondingly flavor our
- responses -- according to what newsgroup we are reading the postings
- from.
-
- }Third, (and you may not have realized this), there is absolutely no
- }requirement on moderators of soc.feminism to be polite to idiots in
- }other newsgroups, only to be polite to idiots whose posts we receive for
- }approval.
-
- You know, I've been trying to ignore the unwarranted insults you've been
- hurling in my direction. Honestly, I didn't take offense at the original
- "Dear" line, and I did kind of like the "Moose" followup. And I even
- tried seriously addressing this topic of the definition and usage of
- "sexist". But more and more you're coming across as just a nasty
- individual. Would it be possible for you to specifically cite whatever
- it was that I posted that makes you feel that the label "idiot" is
- justified? Or have I committed some other horrible sin of misreading
- and you were not aiming that label at me?
-
- --James Preston
-
-