The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Doug Millison]

It's disturbing that the women should find the list environment so hostile;
as others have noted  before, the Pynchon "boy's club" trend is strong;
given how inclusive Pynchon is in our fiction, perhaps we can be, too. I
think there's room for all sorts of comment on the list, and don't advocate
any sort of elitist "moderation" but at the same time I think that the
whole tone and experience will improve as people put a bit more thought
into their posts and remember that we're people. Sarcasm is the weapon of a
weak mind, as the flame is a reflex of rage. We can point these things out
when they surface, and counter with better examples of what we want the
list to reflect.

Cordially,
Doug

At 11:44 PM 7/23/97, Vaska wrote:
>what I wrote in that on-list post did not come out of my own musings
>entirely. I didn't want to say this publicly, though I [will] do so now, but
>a couple of the women on this list have written to me privately to say that
>they're intimidated by what gets thrown my way and that they hope to get
>over their culturally-induced inhibition, exacerbated by too much list
>sarcasm, that's been keeping them so quiet until now.
>
>Perhaps this will help you [and others] recognize that some "distaff
>supression," as you say, has been -- perhaps inadvertently and mostly
>unintentionally [I believe] -- going on here for a while now.
>


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