I want to support Marina Vishmidt's right to post an item on a women's film
archive, and to ask whether it's possible gender is not the main determinant
of interest in such a posting?
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From: "Marina Vishmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Cinenova and the ad hominem non-sequitur
> I believe that the issues discussed in the Cinenova posting matter to
> filmmakers, visual artists, academics, students, researchers, arts policy
> workers - I think I have just enumerated the members of this mailing list.
> With reference to your cryptic remark, a sizeable proportion of them are
> probably women, although this consideration is actually neither primary
nor
> crucial, since we're taling about a distribution archive that contains
some
> of the most important, and sole, copies of experimental, narrative, and
> documentary film in existence. If it is not of interest to you, then you
> are within your rights to ignore it, as not every message on a mailing
list
> will be of equal significance to all its members. Your remark is clearly
> not to meant to initiate any sort of discussion or declare any position -
> so why bother? That augurs some sort of desperation to be sure, but
> there's really no necessity for me to speculate on what kind.
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:44:43 -0700
> From: Joseph Billings <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cinenova - Please Read
>
> Send your women only desperate requests to women only.
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