Say you're a woman and subscribe to a knitting newsgroup . . .

Say you're a woman who is interested in and has a hobby
knitting and crocheting so you find and subscribe to
alt.knitting&crocheting. You become a regular subscriber
and enjoy the good topical information other women have
to offer. The group becomes a good source of information
about your hobby. You meet some interesting women who also
enjoy the same hobby. All is well.

Then one day along comes an obnoxious pushy man who
invades the group from alt.aviation. This man knows nothing
about knitting and crocheting, is not interested in knitting
and crocheting and doesn't post anything about knitting and
crocheting.

Instead, this man, acting like a gigolo and a John, starts
hitting on some of the women in the group. This man's posts
consist only of flirtation and sexual innuendo. In other words,
he is attempting to disrupt the group and pick up women who
don't wish to be bothered while engaged in discussing their
hobby of knitting and crocheting. This behavior is considered
rude and unacceptable universally except perhaps to one,
desperate, lovelorn, mousy-looking woman who starts
returning the man's advances with obnoxious posts of
poetry and sexual suggestions.

The women in the group ask the cad to go away yet he still
hangs around bothering everyone. The group asks the lovelorn
woman to take it e-mail yet she refuses and continues to disrupt
the group. She seems to feel it is her right to disrupt the group
with her immature activities as does the invading man with his
antisocial behavior.

Everyone here, after reading the above scenario would agree
the man is an asshole and a jerk and the woman who encourages
his disruptive behavior is not any better.

The question I have to ask is why, when Lady Pilot does the
very same thing here on alt.sailing.asa, do people not consider
her to be an asshole and a jerk? And why when Mooron facilitates
her do people not hound him down? Am I the only one here who
treats both genders equally? Am I the only one here with
any common sense and logic. Am I the only one here with any
morals? Am I the only one with balls enough to call a whore
a whore and a John a John?

Think about it.

S.Simon