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- From: schenn@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lisa Henn)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
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- Date: 9 Jan 1993 22:30 EDT
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- In article <1012735.14992>, isjl@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (Jason Liuzza) writes...
-
- <This part is Julie's>
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- >>As for the "typical male" statements made on this thread, I don't see why you
- >>guys would *want* women in your classes--most women who enter engineering are
- >>sooooo smart that they blow the typical male minds away (ref. post on high
- >>percentage of women in engr honor societies) and what male likes to be put in
- >>his place by a smarter woman? (Start your flamethrowers...) BTW, I *wasn't*
- >>one of those curve busters! (remember, I said, "*most* women who enter
- >>engineering...)
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- >As interesting as this thread is, would it not be more appropriately
- >placed in say alt.soc.feminism?
-
- Eh, I would deem it "equally appropriate" for either group, as we are talking
- about women _and_ engr.mech (She _did_ mention thermo in a part I deleted)
- I suspect she wasn't trying to oppress anyone, merely being sarcastic for the
- humor value.
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- >Newsgroups: Julie's commentary
- >Followup-To: Julie's commentary
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- Tsk, tsk--talk about trying to start a flame war!
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- L
- Lisa Henn
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