enough is enough!

[Henry Musikar]

On 24 Jul 97 at 17:26, Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net> wrote:

> After reading through the "Nanny Time" thread I was about ready to
> defend Vaska for having taken such heat for making so benign a
> comment as that often times [some] women are hesitant to speak up
> when in the midst of several arguing men.  That's what it seemed to
> me she was saying and, though I've not perceived evidence of it on
> the list (Vaska said she had private correspondence confirming it's
> existence on the list, so I can't say, definitively, that it doesn't
> exist), I have observed it in the "real world".  I didn't really get
> the feeling that the men on the list were being slammed for somehow
> intimidating the women and did think that some folks were
> over-reacting. 

Just what I read/thought.

> Then I came to the "Enough is Enough" thread where Vaska posted
> private email from Andrew Dinn, apparently without his permission. 
> I can't defend that, by no means (major no-no, taboo, verbooten),
> and am thus forced to reconsider.

Three separate issue/phases here: 

1. Vaska's initial post, which didn't blame anyone for anything, but 
postulated that some lurking women might be further 
(self-)intimidated my a moderator.

2. The usual knee-jerk "oh, no. more feminist stuff."

3. Vaska's breech of (n)etiquette.

None of them have anything much to do with the others.

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
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