Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:15:28 -0500 (EST)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-G: Re:  Rolf M. ration Sunday, 18.01.98


Rolf wrote:

> (Malgosia too, btw, one of the Spooners, spoke out against this
> posting by Hans, saying approximately that it contained such
> utter rubbish that would have been chastised severely on the
> marxism-feminism list. Did I perhaps wrong her somewhat by one
> verse on 16.01 "Malgoonsia la In[n]ocentia" maintaining she was
> co-responsible for the coup? Actually, I don't have that much
> information on who among the Spoons are responsable and who're
> not. But since Malgosia - whether she's identical with Char-
> lotte Kates or not - has expressed no opposition to that vile
> coup itself, I think that what I posted was not much wrong.)

Let's see.  Vile coup.  So the way I see it is this: a guy creates and
runs an e-mail list.  After a while, he decides that he no loger wants
to run it the way he's been running it; he wants to run it by a new
set of rules.  Is this a "vile coup"?  By what definition of "coup"?

So am I opposed to the new set of rules?  If I were, there is no reason
to assume that I would express my opposition on M-G, of all places;
and there is even less reason to assume that my opposition would come
from a perspective that you would agree with.  Let's say I was opposed
to it and _I_ staged a "coup" and took over the administration of the list.
Would you, Rolf, like the results?  No, I submit to you that you wouldn't like 
them any more than Hugh liked my "solutions" on M-FEM.

The thing is: whoever in Spoon runs this list, it will only be by a dint
of almost miraculous coincidence if the list is run in a way you agree with.  
What else is new?  The solution to this is to start your own list, no?
There are a number of ISPs that offer lists at prices which, if a number 
of people chipped in, would be almost negligible.  I wouldn't trust you,
or want you to, run a political list in line with _my_ politics;
why do you, who don't trust me either, pretend that I have some moral
obligation to run one for you, and that it is "vile" of me not to?  
This is just stuff and rubbish.

As for the hypothesis that I am Charlotte Kates, I know a guy who
claims that all women are the same once you turn them upside down.
To those who share his wordview, I most definitely _am_ Charolotte Kates
and she is me.


-m


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