Re: Another sensationalist Newsweek Article

[Tom Allard <m1tca00@FRB.GOV>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----


> The May 16th newsweek has an article on comparing women and men is 
> cyberspace.  It's blatantly biased, portraying men as sex-starved, 
> war-mongering, unsensitive geeks, and women as the perfect example of 
> what society should REALLY be.

Maybe you otta forward them something from Barbera Abernathy.

And just how, might I ask, did they determine the sex of various posters.
Heck, as far as you know I'm another Mark Ethan Smith.  And there are
LOTS of users with logins like fd9465 and the like.  Heck, I can't
always determine gender in *real* life!

> I'm growing tired of these sensationalist articles in the popular press, 
> that serve to only alienate the denizens of cyberspace and scare off the 
> civilians.

I've also noticed several notorious loons being quoted in the mainstream.
Dave Hayes & John Palmer jump to mind, and you can just bet that Detweiler
is talking to these people, although probably using a different name
each time.

rgds-- TA  (tallard@frb.gov)
I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, they don't speak for me.
pgp fingerprint: 10 49 F5 24 F1 D9 A7 D6  DE 14 25 C8 C0 E2 57 9D
              

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.5

iQCVAgUBLdE1C6AudFplx0TNAQFl2wP+O+tt+IKuSREeP2k7Zx6LC8SMEwTDtU8e
Dbia4SLd6oHv0meMifwDHtO6/x+eWmbib+8TQrNWGcJW3C991ycM39Z0PLK2rW1B
sl/tYbp1cUPztsoj60tRGjogFE9ZkOaiQCv8C3fUG1Y/U8+5yN9UZtNmLJG01ysC
SozS2AfavVs=
=YP1X
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----