HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: charity@owlnet.rice.edu (Charity R. Bettoney)
Subject: Re: feminists are bad in bed (was: Lust, Violence, Pornograpy, and Rape ( was a letter )
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:18:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.043540.13790@access.digex.com> deja-q@access.digex.com (Lin Yon Q) writes:

>Jesus Christ.  What the hell are you trying to prove, responding to pock
>marked geeks with penny loafers, pocket protectors, and think that taking
>a shower is sprinkling a little "shower to shower" under their festering
>armpits.  The closest thing they've ever seen to a woman is the toilet
>seat that one of those evil feminists (who probably only urinate once every
>full moon) used last easter.  The same snotty nosed acne faced geekoids that
>nobody would pick in the volleyball games.  The sniveling, drooling, buck
>toothed mommy's boys who went to the school dance with their equally
>sniveling, drooling, buck toothed sister.  
>
>GET A CLUE!  Ignore these sexually frustrated imbiciles.  
>
>Q

Gosh, Q.  Look at my .sig.  Don't you think I look cute?  I even take regular
showers.

Charity


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Charity R. Bettoney             ppP8&             (char *)ity
charity@owlnet.rice.edu        8'^_^`8      (This only looks vaguely
Rice University               o8\`='/8o     like me, but what the heck.)
From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: Makeup - a male perspective
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:54:03 GMT
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle

In article <1992Apr6.132012.1@mdcbbs.com> rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
/  Shaving of beards is a military invention designed to keep the enemy from
/grabbing your beard while he whacks at your neck with a sword. Shaiving of all
/bodily hairs used to be a health practice designed to deal with small life
/forms that find hairly places nice and cozy.

There are also interesting historical reasons for short hair for men. They
are:
o	Hair is short for soldiers to prevent it being grabbed by an attacker,
	same as above. (If I was in combat, my hair would be about .5" long,
	for that reason and for cleanliness. .5" would suffice for sun
	protection.)
o	Hair is shaved off for boot camp recruits as a means of removing the
	individuality of the soldiers (the "uniform" does the rest).
o	(I'm going to get flamed for this!) Short hair historically has been
	a symbol of free men. Long hair has been a symbol of oppression
	and slavery. (I am talking about men's hair here.) This goes back
	to the Greeks. And yes, I'm sure you can name many counterexamples.

P.S. My own hair is quite short because it's easy to care for that way and
because I think balding men look pretty stoopid with long, thin hair!
Newsgroups: soc.women,rec.sport.basketball.pro
From: bewillia@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Maj. Devon McKnight)
Subject: Re: Women
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:02:08 EDT

In article <1992Apr10.043120.4192@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> lavellin@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Joseph Lavelline) writes:
>
>Some girls like to buy new shoes and others like driving trucks and 
>wearing tatoos.

	Yes, yes, but what are the chances of Boston overtaking New York in
the Atlantic? Huh? Huh? Bueller?
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
From: stevec@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Cumming)
Subject: Re: What I Did at the Rally (Washington, 4/5)
Summary: Some pedant just can't miss a chance.
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:59:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.025227.4687@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
>
>>If you can't get soc.feminism, your site
>>is being oppressed.
>
>Or the owner of the system doesn't want to pay for it, [...]
>--  Michael P. Deignan                      / 

Yes, Michael, that's possible. I can't help but wonder, though,
why you'd trouble to bring it up. Can you just not stand any degree
of logical imperfection in Gordon's postings?

Or is the principle of private ownership something you rise, like a
fish, to defend, even when it's not in jeapordy or debate?

Or are you just being silly?

Xref: sparky soc.women:8856 soc.men:8317 talk.rape:869 talk.abortion:14576 rec.arts.sf.misc:1350
From: lischmid@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (Dave Weingart)
Newsgroups: tcd.talk,soc.women,soc.men,talk.rape,talk.abortion,rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: A rather peculiar letter.
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:51:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: I'm NEVER organized!

In article <1992Apr10.223308.5691@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mikeh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (michael p.herlihy) writes:
>What is the consensus on the net for a national abortion law?
[etc. etc. etc.]

Does this _really_ belong on rec.arts.sf.misc?

How about looking at it from a speculative fiction way, if you feel it
must be here at all?  Say...what would the country be like if abortion
was totally outlawed?  What kind of underground society would spring
up to make sure it could happen, and what sort of Morality Police
would be around to make sure it didn't?

(Now there's a story idea for someone...)


-- 
Dave Weingart     KB2CWF     lischmid@ic.sunysb.edu
                             phydeaux@pdnfido.fidonet.org

Open mouth.  Insert foot.  Echo internationally.
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: short marriages
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:52:38 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: lems

> In <1992Apr2.200144.16834@adobe.com> kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall) writes:
> 
>> Evaluation period?  Why not just live together - or live apart and be engaged
>> for 5 years?  What if a child is born during this evaluation period?  Divorce
>> is very hard on children.
> 

  Evaluations don't work and neither does living together. There is something
about taking the marital step that changes the dynamics. My ex and I
lived together for 4 years (waiting on her first divorce) and frankly,
we had a hell of a good time tooling all over the planet. Byt when we
got married (same place Elvis did), things changed, then got really
weird when she got pregnant.

  You pay your nickel (quarter; there's a recession) and you take your
chances.

  Me, I'm a hopless (or is that hopeful) romantic, and if I'm in a committed
relationship, I want to be in all the way, with rings, a cake, and horrible
gifts from the in-laws gathering dust in the closets. (but not for a while)



<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|  Michael Rivero rivero@mdcbbs.com Homo Cyberneticus-Computational Man  |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: Men Are Not Cost Effective
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:44:47 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <12026@tamsun.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) writes:
[text deleted]
#Therefore you'd better get up and rebuke your bigotted sisters or you WILL  
#be held responsible for them.

Oh, right.

I don't hold all men responsible for the trash that you produce,
Charles Herrick.  I only hold you responsible.  Would you like
to look up bigot in a dictionary, for once?

Susan
From: jlong@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long)
Subject: Re: PROMINENT IRANIAN BAHA'I EXECUTED
Organization: Universe
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:09:14 GMT

In article <TOWFIQ.92Apr14084743@crisco.FTP.COM> towfiq@FTP.COM writes:

>>>>>> In article <1992Apr13.174855.3057@cs.brown.edu> dzk@cs.brown.edu
>>>>>> (Danny Keren) writes:
>
>dzk> If I am not mistaken, the Baha'i religion originated in Iran
>dzk> about a hundred and fifty years ago. It calls (among other
>dzk> things) to brotherhood of all people, and is very peaceful.
>
[ .... ]
>
>  Because of this, while Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians are
>recognized in the Iranian Constitution as religious minorities, and
>thereby accorded the rights which go along with this category, no such
>mention is made of the Baha'is, who therefore have little protection
>under the law, as was mentioned in the article.
>
>  Another reason for the persecution of Baha'is is that Baha'u'llah
>has taught that men and women are equal and should be accorded the
>same rights and opportunities, which, as you can surmise, goes against
>the present structure of society and government in Iran.
>                         ^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^

But NOT the teachings of Mohammed! Early moslems were persecuted in the 
same way, for giving rights to women. Yes, people, I know that it is 
the standard American_Media_Party_Line to say that women are dirt in 
islam, but any study of the history of islam will reveal that Mohammed
probably did more to advance the rights of women than any one person in
history. I know this may be hard for some tube-heads to buy, but that
is because Tee-vee programming is *programming* (and guess what the
target system is!)

Islam gave many rights to women that they did not have before, such as 
the right to choose a husband, initiate divorce and own property. Also,
women were recognized as being "spiritually equal" to men. 

The Bahai faith goes farther, in accordance with the times...

>
>The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes,
>is one of the most important, though less acknowledged prerequisites of peace.
>The denial of such equality perpetrates an injustice against one half of the
>world's population and promotes in men harmful attitudes and habits that are
>carried from the family to the workplace, to political life, and ultimately to
>international relations.
>		-- "The Promise of World Peace", The Universal House of Justice

Whether or not the followers of a religion actually heed the teachings 
of the founder, is another matter... Hyprocacy and corruption can be
found in all religions.

The fact that the Bahai faith began *after* islam is the problem. The
Bahai's claim to have their own prophet, and he aint Mohammed, and 
Mohammed said that there weren't gonna be no more prophets after him, 
'cause the bible told him so......

It ain't the religion, it's the fanatical misinterpretation, corruption,
hyprocacy, etc. that makes it hard.

Aloha,
-LongJohn
From: rxh9306@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Part 7 : Who Created the Tigers(LTTE) ?
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:34:57 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology




Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?                        (Part 7)


Successive Sri Lankan Governments did !


Here is how:

There is no dispute amongst historians that a Tamil nation (in the
North and East of the island) and a Sinhala nation (in the South
and West) existed in the form of separate kingdoms for more than
two thousand years.............  Before the British conquered and
merged the Sinhala and Tamil nations into a single country called
'Ceylon' in 1833, the Tamil and Sinhala communities were ruled by
different Kings as two separate independent nations.........

One of the most vicious forms of oppression of Tamils by successive
Sri Lankan Governments is the destruction of this national identity
of the Tamil population through government sponsored aggressive
Colonization Schemes in the form of

(a)  settling Sinhalese from the South, in the North and East, the
traditional Tamil homelands. [The Sinhala settlers are provided
with financial assistance as well as housing, land and irrigation
facilities for farming]

(b)  forced acquisition of private lands owned by Tamils and vacant
lands in the North and East by declaring them as archeological or
sacred sites of Buddhist and Sinhalese culture.

(c)  division of provinces into districts and the merger of Tamil
districts in the North and East with the Sinhala districts in the
border provinces and the creation of new Sinhala districts in the
North and East.

..............These government sponsored colonization schemes
include Gal Oya and Maduru Oya developments in Batticaloa district;
Allai, Kanthalai and Yan Oya projects in the Trincomalee districts;
and the Mahaweli Development Scheme which is designed to connect
the Sinhalese colonies in the Eastern province with their
counterparts in the North.  In the Gal Oya scheme alone, there are
38 new Sinhalese colonies created within the last 40
years...........

...............The proportion of Tamil speaking people (in the
traditional Tamil homelands in the Eastern Province) has been
reduced from 88% in 1946 to 75% in 1981, while the Sinhalese
population more than doubled from 12% in 1946 to 25% in 1981.  The
recent unofficial figures indicate that the current proportion of
the Sinhala population in the Eastern region is continuing to
increase.



(Dr. E.A. Selvanathan, Proceedings of the International Tamil Eelam
Research Conference 1991,  California State University, Sacramento,
California, U.S.A., July 19 - 21, 1991)
From: nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: human rights
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:17:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr8.201725.23898
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hello.

I'm doing research on human rights abuses and torture in the Middle East, and
would appreciate it if anyone on this net sends me the latest info., articles, or
references on this topic.

Thank you,
Naghmeh
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
From: january@polari.com
Subject: Re: War Resisters League on Terrorism
Summary: Specific criticisms vs. general flames
Keywords: skoll war resisters league criticism
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix (206) 328-4944
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:40:38 GMT

All I garnered from David Skoll's recent posting is:

(1) He believes Peacenet is hypocritical for supporting an
organization committed to the annihilation of all Jews
throughout the world.

(2) He believes that the people killed in Israel's recent
attack on Lebanon are part of said organization.

I do not feel Mr. Skoll presented any substantial evidence
to support either position.  The original posting was from
the War Resisters League, even if it came by way of
Peacenet.  The original posting condemned the bombing of
Lebanon on the grounds that people, assumed to be innocent,
were killed, without making any reference to their
individual political affiliations.

Mr. Skoll cites Hezbollah and other groups' past attributed
actions, an abhorrent anti-Semitic statement from Argentina,
and the War Resisters League article.  I perceive nothing
that connects these.

I for one would appreciate more detailed references,
analysis, and specific criticism and less invective and
sarcasm.  The posting from the War Resisters League held
much of the former.  Mr. Skoll's article contained much of
the latter.
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--Jamie Pehling (january@polari.uucp -or- uunet!polari!january)--
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From: rxh9306@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Part 6 : Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:54:21 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology



Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?                        (Part 6)


Ekasath Bhikkhu Peramuna and others like him did !


Here is how:

On 5 June 1956, the date the "Sinhala only" bill was introduced by
Bandaranaike in the House, as an act of protest Chelvanayakam (a
Tamil leader of the FP party) led a party of 300 Tamil volunteers
and staged a sit-down "Satyagraha" (peaceful protest), of the kind
popularized by the Mahatma Gandhi in the days of the indian freedom
struggle......

On the same day, the Ekasth Bhikkhu Peramuna (a Buddhist Priest)
had organized a march to the House to get the "reasonable use of
Tamil" clause in the bill removed.  The Bhikkhu Peramuna procession
converged on the House, followed by thousands of supporters of
"Sinhala only", and when they found the Tamils staging the
Satyagraha they set upon and beat them.

On that day, the police were all around but allowed the (Tamil)
Satyagrahis to be beaten up (by the Sinhala mob).  The Tamil
protesters never imagined the bhikkhu holy men would be a party to
violence.......  From that moment, every Tamil seen on the roads of
Colombo was attacked.....  Sinhalese hooligans took charge of the
situation and went on a rampage of arson and looting of Tamil shops
and homes.......  The violence and rioting spread to Gal Oya and
Ampari, where, under an irrigation and resettlement scheme,
thousands of Sinhalese had been resettled in clusters around thinly
distributed Tamil villages in the eastern province.  In the race
riot in 1956 150 people died.  This included many Tamil women and
children.


( Sri Lanka, The National Question and the Tamil Liberation Struggle
by Sachi Ponnambalam )
From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Subject: Re: Available through email?
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 05:37:54 GMT

In <1992Mar28.062222.10481@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
	blazic@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (BLAZIC  Joseph R) writes:

> Do agencies like Amnesty International, Helsinki Watch, Red Cross make any
> of their documents available through email?

Yes.  Amnesty International distributes Urgent Action Alerts via a mailing
list.  Contact them using the address amnesty@igc.org (IGC hosts the PeaceNet,
EcoNet, and ConflictNet systems).

From a typical Amnesty Alert:

| If you would like general information about AIUSA activities
| and membership, contact our national office at 322 8th Ave.,
| NYC, NY 10001  (212) 807-8400.
|
| UAs are available from AIUSA on many information services,
| through a planned distribution system of direct deliveries
| from AI and from UAN-approved redistributions by interested
| volunteers.
--
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human

i am trying to get information about Iceland -- not fluff info, but real 
stuff. According to Amnesty International, they have no records of human
rights abuse. Does anyone know anything different? Any violations that may
not have been reported to AI? (I do not represent AI. It is just for my 
own information.)    thanks......
From: ze@milton.u.washington.edu (Ze' Magalhaes)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Conference on East Timor - Harvard University
Keywords: Human Rights, Massacre, East Timor, Conference
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:32:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr16.223202.26485
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


                    Harvard University's
            John F. Kennedy School of Government
                          present
                    an ARGO Forum event:

   ______________________________________________________________
 /                                                                \
|                   MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR:                        |
|                                                                  |
|           CASE STUDY IN UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY             |
 \.______________________________________________________________./

                         - with -

                        Larry Dinger
          US State Department Indonesia Desk Officer

                     Benedict Anderson
Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

                        Allan Nairn
            New Yorker Magazine/ Massacre survivor

                        Amy Goodman
          Pacifica Radio news editor/ Massacre survivor


                       Noam Chomsky
                  Institute Professor, MIT

                     - moderated by -

                       Henry Steiner
          Director of Human Rights Program, Harvard Law


      smuggled video tape of the massacre will be shown


            :       Tuesday, April 21, 1992         :
            :              8:15 pm                  :
            :        Institute of Politics          :
            :           79 JFK Street               :
            :        Cambridge MA 02138             :
            :           (617) 495-1360              :
            :                                       :
            :     free and open to the public       :


                      co-sponsored by:

Harvard Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, Asian American Association,
Harvard College Democrats, Radcliffe Union of Students, Democratic
Socialists of America, Harvard Filipino Forum, Anthropology Club,
Harvard Chapter of Amnesty International, East Timor Action Network/
Rhode Island, Portuguese American, Portuguese Continental Union,
Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

   Portuguese Embassy Officials will be in attendence
   Indonesian Embassy Officials have been invited
From: rxh9306@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Part 5 : Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:09:09 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology



Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?                        (Part 5)


The sinhala parliament members of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
(People's United Front) and the United National Party (UNP), who
were responsible for passing the Parliamentary Law given bellow,
and others like them !



" The "Sinhalese-only" language policy passed into law as the
Official Language Act No.33 of 1956, and reads as follows-
"An Act to prescribe the Sinhala language as the one official
language of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and to enable certain transitory
provisions to be made (Date of Assent: 7 July 1956).


1.  This Act may be cited as the Official Language Act No.33 of
1956.


2.  The Sinhala language shall be the ONE official language of
                                   ^^^^^^^^^
Ceylon (Sri Lanka).  Provided that where the Minister considers it
impracticable to commence the use of ONLY the Sinhala language, for
                                   ^^^^^^^^^
ANY official purpose immediately on the coming into force of this
^^^^^^^^
Act, the language or languages ( Tamil ) hitherto used for that
purpose may be continued to be so used until the necessary change
is effected as early as possible before the expiry of 31 December
1960 and, if such change cannot be effected by administrative
order, regulations may be made under this Act to effect such
change.


3. (I)  The Minister may make such regulations in respect of all
matters for which regulations are authorized by this Act to made
and generally for the purpose of giving effect to the principles
and provisions of this Act.
   (II)  No regulation made under sub-section (1) shall have effect
until it is approved by the Senate and the Housed of
Representatives and notification of such approval is published in
the Gazette. "



(Sri Lanka : The National Question and the  Tamil Liberation
Struggle,  by Satchi Ponnambalam)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human