I, too, support this posting. I find it more than a little disturbing that
anyone would be attacked for asking for help for a film archive, whatever
its content, on this list.
George Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so
weak as in a bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Bryce" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Cinenova and the ad hominem non-sequitur
> 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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