Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:57:18 -0400 
From: Sudha Neelakantan <sudha+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: SCI posters club
Distribution: soc.culture.indian

udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz) writes:
> Anyone notice that SCI is male dominated ? Do you wonder why women 
> never bother,
> to express themselves, here ? I for one, was thrilled to see some women 
> posting on "eve teasing".  A lot of my classmates and friends, who
> are women, and have access to SCI never post.
>  I cannot fathom why. Maybe some of you with
> your infinite wisdom may try to badger a guess. 
> Also, I wonder why some males,
> who are supportive of some of the issues raised by women, 
> resort to mail, to indicate their support.
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> Sylvia D. D'Cruz                                
or their disagreement for that matter -- most men on sci in the same
rationale as followed by eve-teasers on indian streets prefer
to express their anger/frustration with personal email.  they don't
seem to want to "come out".

I must admit that i made particularly incendiary statements that were
not even well-thought the last time i posted on sci, but few bothered
to debate this on a rational level.  i was instead inundated with hate
mail.  whereas i'd hoped to generate more interesting discussion by
moving things away from the center

anyway, i also had a comment on the general tone of your posts which
is that the US offers a more congenial atmosphere to women.  my
personal experience is that there is not much to choose on that
respect between the two countries, i'm currently subject to more
insidious pressures.  and its even overt on occasion if you happen to
need to stay in the same social group -- i would have to tolerate
being called a "broad" or an "air-head" to my face[and some women i 
know do this] , merely because i'm a woman.  luckily, this is not 
my workplace and its just school, so i can choose my friends and 
not be particularly harmed, but it still gives me a few 
frustrated sleepless nights.  and the real problem is the lack of 
credibility in the work that one does as well as the attitude that 
they're just dumb $^#$%#% and nothing they're saying is going to be
valuable anyway.  if they create a problem lets pay lipservice to 
the idea of giving them a role/allowing them to have input into 
decision making.

and don't leave the net. -- sci certainly needs more women like 
you to add meaningful insights and balance to the views 
presented here.

Sudha

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   Sudha K. Neelakantan     < Clouds come floating into my life,  
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Sudha

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   Sudha K. Neelakantan     < Clouds come floating into my life,  
    The Heinz School of      \ no longer to carry rain or usher storm   
Public Policy and Management  \ but to add color to my sunset sky.
      Carnegie Mellon          >    - Rabindranath Tagore -
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