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- From: uunet!infmx!hartman@ncar.ucar.EDU (Robert Hartman)
- Subject: Signal to noise, and resolution of issues (was: on being offended)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu
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- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
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- Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu
- Keywords: Pornography, conventions, courtesy, stereotypes
- Lines: 27
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:19:34 GMT
- References: <1jkk22INNahq@access.usask.ca>
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- In article <1jkk22INNahq@access.usask.ca> bickis@skmath3.usask.ca ("M. Bickis") writes:
- >There is a common strand going through many of the current threads
- >which I want to bring up in the hopes that it might knock some of the
- >discussions out of the endless circles that have been going on:
- >
- >The question is this: When is it ethical to persist in an activity
- >which we know that others find offensive? ...
-
- [ much on-target discussion omitted for brevity ]
-
- One of the things I really like about this newsgroup is that although
- we seem to get mired in the same quandaries and cross-discussions
- that come up in other groups, just when I begin to dispair of ever
- reaching resolution, someone posts an article that summs things up
- quite nicely. This article of Mik's was a case in point.
-
- I never see this happen on other "soc" newsgroups, and I really must
- credit the feminist charter and the moderators for maintaining a
- positive enough climate that people can actually think things through.
-
- -r
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