The future of the list -- nanny time?

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

Things were going along just fine, then Vaska has to bring gender 
into it.
Perhaps I should not extrapolate from personal experience, but (and 
there is always a "but") I have a hard time determining the gender of 
any particular poster absent a full name( and even with such I have 
pooched mightily on two occasions). If there is some societally 
determined reluctance on the part of any woman to post, it would seem 
entirely frivolous in this context.
Go swing your harridan's hatchet in some other salon, I refuse to 
yield to such hypergynosensitivity.
lovingly, but sternly
cfa

> I just had an off-list message on this subject and thought of replying that,
> for starters, and at least in my experience [i.e. since last October], most
> of the *women* on this list make very infreqent contributions.  Can't speak
> for them, and perhaps some will disagree, but I do suspect that at least for
> some of my sisters on this list, it is a case of a strongly entrenched,
> hard-to-fight and socially-induced self-consciousness about speaking in
> public.  Add a "supervising agent" to all that and I hate to think what
> might happen.  Would we ever hear from Dana, again, for example?  I wonder.