Timothy C. May wrote:
At 10:20 AM -0800 12/21/96, Dale Thorn wrote:
Ya' know, guys, the world is half women, even though they're not on the c-punks list. Get in touch with them. They're fun people. Ah, it's been a while since we had the "why aren't more women on the list?" discussion. Frankly, women are of course welcome. If the list interests them, they are welcome to subscribe. As it has always been. So, Dale, feel free to recruit more women to this and other lists. But don't presume from the traffic you see here--or from comments about the utter stupidity of little Jessica Dubroff, her pilot, her parents, and the complicitous news media--that we need a lecture on getting in touch with women.
All of this is valid (for argument's sake) except "the stupidity of little Jessica". She was doing well for a 7-year-old, and I was quite proud of her. The morons who were flying that plane near weight capacity at lower altitudes should have been shot for that alone, never mind trying that at the altitude where they "bought the farm". What happened to Jessica because of the selfish, greedy adults who were involved actually gives weight to the parental licensing plan, yes? (Ouch)