Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site calmasd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccs6!calmasd!gail From: gail@calmasd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Sexism Lives... Message-ID: <143@calmasd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 12:55:22 EDT Article-I.D.: calmasd.143 Posted: Fri Aug 3 12:55:22 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 06:19:43 EDT Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA Lines: 18 Last weekend, my officemate (who happens to be male) and I rearranged our computer room, and re-did all the cabling for the terminals. The security guard wandered in, watched what I was doing (punching wires down on a patch panel) for a few minutes, and then said, "Gail, you were born to be a man." Right. Gail Bayley Hanrahan {decvax,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!gail Calma Company, San Diego P.S. I reported this comment verbatim to our company security person. I'm happy to say that he was almost as offended by it as I was.