🚀 go-pugleaf

Rosie Cross writes:

:   Yeah me.! :) Im not bananas about wanting to see cyberspace used
:   appropriately and positively. I suspect you have no idea or do you
:   care about the degree to which "cyberspace" has deteriorated into
:   some sort of rack 'em and stack 'em murder death kill text based

cjmount@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Christopher Mountford) writes:

> I think the point is, when dealing with issues of sexism, not just flames,
> but bigotry, that women are not treated as men are by other men. Not only
> flamed more "just for having opinions" but flamed with sexist, redneck
> attitudes. I think RL is worse than the net though.

> A common complaint amongst women on the net is that men have 
> patriarchal structures which disadvantage women in the form of
> underlying social attitudes. I think you are yet to grasp the


Yes ... and some men are also disadvantaged by them in greater society
in the sense that thay are expected to behave in certain ways and for
those that don't wish to
conform to that it can be very oppressive.

It is good to see this topic discussed as there are still people out there
who have never thought that the traditional view of how men an women are
"supposed to be" is not the only way they can be...
This could be a step to freeing some of us (both female and male) from the
kind "social prison" that the mainstream/traditional view of the world
puts us in.


---MJD.