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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9786)	3/5/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Interesting. Why would it matter? Wouldn't to me, obviously. Just wondering about the connection D appears to make between sex and intelligence: his statement was yet another insult. In his exchanges with women he tends to be either condescending or nasty. You're the exception, but then you agree with him. Not, of course, that he isn't rude to men as well. Merely curious to know what there is about the character of jhild's posts that suggests s/he is female.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9786)	3/5/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Betty, It should make absolutely no difference whether a poster is male or female and only the contents and thoughts expressed in a post should matter. However, studies have shown that reactions and responses will differ, depending upon whether the poster is thought to be a male or a female. These studies are widely recognized as valid by the geeks and wonks among us, and that is why you see so many gender/sex-neutral aliases or handles. Interesting, really. Take a look at your cybercronies who have switched from using their real names to gender/sex-neutral names and see if you don't find the before and after responses to their posts to be at variance in how they are perceived. We all had hoped that Internet communication would prove to be the great leveler. Maybe it still can be. Holly