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Subject: Re: Oh, my God, what a broadside I got...!

Author: James B. Shearer

Date: 15:53:16 04/20/98

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On April 20, 1998 at 02:55:12, Bruce Moreland wrote:


>I don't think it is fair to brand someone as PC
just because they
>consider this stuff.  Last year a woman wrote an
innocent comment in
>r.g.c.c., and the response was completely amazing
and disgusting.  Folks
>condescended to the poster, felt obliged to open up
the thread for a
>general discussion of women in chess programming,
questioned the extent
>of Kathe Spraklen's involvement with Sargon, and
wrote delightful
>statements such as "the female brain is not suited
to programming, let
>alone chess programming".

So why do you oppose women posting to this group
using male names to avoid this sort of thing?

James B. Shearer



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