real thinking

[LAI-WAN CHAN]

> From: Peggy Jennings <PEGJ at oregon.uoregon.edu>
> Subject: real thinking
> To: connectionists at CS.CMU.EDU
> Message-id: <05B83B73F77F40AB90 at oregon.uoregon.edu>

>        This is an open letter to those of you who assume that men are
> connectionists and women are whores.   I am sick of having to point out to
> you that women are not only connectionists but are humans as well.  I can't
> describe how angry it makes me to log onto the network and find a series of
> limericks, some of them clever and funny to all of us, others insulting and
> denigrating to women.  What next?  Sambo jokes?  I wish you guys would use
> your real brains and think about others than yourselves.  Get a clue.


Agreed.  I, as a woman, am expressing my anger too.  Funny jokes are good but
don't be insulting.

Lai-Wan Chan,
Computer Science Dept,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong.