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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,soc.men,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.070715.10499@smds.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:07:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.155536.13131@ll.mit.edu> <MUFFY.92Dec22131202@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- I read the following in soc.men -- note the newsroups line which I
- have not changed...
-
- In article <MUFFY.92Dec22131202@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
-
- >>Men who discuss mens issues without the footnote 'women have it much
- >>worse', or who interject that males also have a perspective on a particular
- >>problem that women haven't considered (see para 1), are insensitive to
- >>womens issues/needs/whatever and are belittleing womens lives.
-
- >Nope. Men who say "shut up about (for example) violence against women,
- >because the *real* problem is violence against men" are being
- >insensitive and belittling. Men who discuss men's issues in a group
- >which is supposedly about feminism (which you yourself say is about
- >women's issues) are also being insensitive, since the implication is
- >that people who are concerned about women's issues *should* be spending
- >their time on men's issues. Why not keep it in soc.men and stop all
- >this ridiculous cross-posting?
-
- We don't get alt.feminism -- the only reason I saw this article was that
- it was cross-posted to soc.men and soc.women which we do get. I will
- refrain from making the obvious cheap shots. However I suspect that some
- will miss the point so I will spell it out. If you, muffy, cross post
- then people will respond to your postings in the group that you cross
- post to. It scarcely makes sense for you to complain about cross posting
- when you regularly do it yourself.
-
- Cheers,
-
- --
- Richard Harter: SMDS Inc. Net address: rh@smds.com Phone: 508-369-7398
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