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Anyway, I'm surprised that there isn't a feminist witch-hunt investigating Samdy Sandfort, for his non-pc H.E.A.T. reports.

Yikes, Ray, let's not give anybody ideas! In reality, though, I think the perceptive women on this list know my heart is in the right place. Isn't it clear to everyone what I'm making fun of?

Heh.

It's not clear to Ray.

Well, I can certainly say that I am impressed that you've progressed to telepathy, but humor a poor student for once. Could it be that H.E.A.T. is a low budget campy syndicated show with bad writing whose only "redeeming" (gimmick) feature is the hunky guys and bodacious babes which appear on it? Like 9 million similar shows on USA up-all-night. I'm a fan of the genre myself, only instead of H.E.A.T., I watch "Thunder in Paradise" which has Hulk Hogan, a wonder speedboat, and Carol Alt in it. You can't beat the ridiculous plots, impossible boat technology (artificial intelligence, rocket powered *in water* at speeds that would easily tear it apart, and cheesy morphing effects), and the way Carol Alt seems to fall into the hands of the bad guy every week. (the bad guy usually has a harem of women, or amazons from American Gladiators). Sandy may think that the women "know his heart is in the right place", but that is a dangerous assumption to make, especially in a professional setting where you aren't judgement proof. Let me tell you what happened to my brother-in-law 2 weeks ago. He had just gotten back from vacation in the Bahamas with my sister and was eager to show his buddies at work(United Airlines) the pictures he had taken on the beach. It just so happened that this beach had plenty beautiful women in bikini's on it and he had taken many pictures of them. His buddies made a few comments like "check out that one", "that one's a babe", etc. One of the female coworkers overheard and filed sexual harrassment charges. (she thought the pictures were pornographic, she hadn't seem them). He was punished and given a list of words and phrases you can't say around the office, including stuff like, "you look different, did you change something?" and "your hair looks nice today." The point being, it doesn't matter what your intentions are, or if you meant no harm by a comment, one sexist comment or mention of a woman's body part, and in many workplaces, you could be in hot water. The key phrase is "perceptive women". There will always be one twit, or group of twits, waiting to pounce on you. After experiencing speech codes and feminist wackos on the U of MD campus, I'm not going to underestimate the power of twits any more. Sandy's pretty safe making comments on this list because of the make up of the list (mostly male, many libertarian, many anti-pc, etc) just as Tim May was safe making plenty of politically controversial statements on Extropians. Try making those kinds of statements in a more politically diverse forum. (and indeed, I believe Tim did eventually catch fire in the netcom newsgroups where someone mistook one of his comments against welfare as bigotry) I hope I "got it"