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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Supermodels contribute to spiraling low self esteem?
- References: <Bx9sGt.LAM@world.std.com> <1dsbfhINN8hi@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1992Nov12.182022.9195@tellab5.tellabs.com> <BxsH9p.6FL@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:33:11 GMT
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- brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov12.182022.9195@tellab5.tellabs.com> chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
- >>In article <1dsbfhINN8hi@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, cor@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Cory Shimer) writes:
- >>> If someone makes you feel relatively unattractive by what they say
- >>> or do, and then you happen to see some poster of some supermodel...
-
- >Perhaps feminists would feel better about themselves if the only pictures
- >in magazine ads, posters, etc. were of ugly sloppy pathetic women. Is that
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >a solution to their self-esteem problems? I doubt it.
-
- >--Brian
-
- Just a quick question, Brian. Why do you equate not being
- very good looking, and not putting that much energy into
- one's appearance, with being pathetic?
-
- Why is a woman like Marie Curie, Golda Meir or Harriet Tubman
- more pathetic than a woman like Marla Maples, Madonna, or
- Vanna White?
-
- I think it would be more fun to be one of the former three, myself.
- At any rate, I suspect they had more fun in bed (not having
- to project sexy vibes for economic reasons).
-
- Lenore Levine
-