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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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com