Re: Pesky Gender, another rant [was: First posting...

annb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>one piece of email is okay. The main thing is, though, that most
>people accept "I'd rather keep this discussion public, not in email"
>Just Fine, and take the discussion back to the public arena. The ones
>who refuse to, are, well, only a few, generally, and most likely to be a
>problem. Frankly, anyone who doesn't accept a polite, reasonable
>request as such is being rude. And who wants email from them?

It's not rude to prefer private discussions to public ones. It's 
similarly not rude to express that preference as I have done. You're 
using this supposed preference for public discussion as a smoke screen 
for what's really going on. Women here don't like me and don't want to 
hear from me privately. Some of them dislike me because of 
unsatisfactory conversations with me; others dislike me without even 
knowing me, based on what others tell them. Others think I harass their 
friends and use that reason to dislike me, even though they know how to 
keep out of their friends' dramas. So, it's all about women here 
disliking me and has nothing to do with this stupid technicality 
regarding the supposed rudeness of emailing usenet posters.

Look, I'll hereby make a pact with every female alt.poly poster to be 
honored in perpetuity. I will not email anyone with whom I've attempted 
to correspond in the past, regardless of how much time elapses. If such 
women wish to contact me, they can email me privately. As for new women, 
I vow to send only a single introductory email and patiently await a 
response telling me explicitly whether they'd like communication with me 
to continue or stop. In exchange, I'd like regular female posters to 
kindly refrain from spreading negative impressions of me to new 
arrivals. Are we all happy now?

Orlando