Well, you are sort of missing the point.
Marina wants support for gender specific events. I don't
support gender specific events because I am against
exclusions based upon gender. I am against sexism, and I
would join you in supporting Marina if she were also
against sexism.
Joe
--- Jane Bryce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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