The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Sojourner]

At 08:07 AM 7/24/97 -0300, Vaska wrote:

>Once more into the fray, but not interminably: 
>
>How come Andrew's long post of a moment ago, as well as Charles's of
>yesterday, had nothing to say about any "special pleading" on the part of
>the *male* P-listers I'd mentioned and quoted?  
>
>How come these men were neither defined nor defended as no "shrinking
>violets" indeed?  
>
>And how come all this energy is being put into denying the very obvious:
>even with the numerical disparity of male and female members of this list,
>any [make it as cursory or detailed as you like] review of the P-list
>archives will readily reveal that the women on this list have spoken with
>exceptional, uncommon, eye-catching infrequency.  
>
>Methinks the gentlemen do protest too much....
>
>Vaska
>

Amen Vaska... didn't say it earlier as I'm supposed to be "working" haha
but amen.

I know a man in real life named Jaska and a woman named Laska.  I know a
state named
Alaska and I know a lotion named Nebraska (corn husker's lotion for those
of you
who never worked with your hands).

I do not care who writes a post.  I do not care what their gender identity
is, unless they
extrapolate their experience into their observation/post.  I do not care if
the women
on here are "shrinking violets" or "Amazons" or "pretty playthings of the
rich" or
"axe-wielding harridans" or "Courtney Love's former girlfriend" or anything
else.

Vaska, keep writing, and damn the torpedos (in this case, people with an
incessant
need to have a quorum on every single issue).

Amen sister.   And if you get a sex change, amen brother.