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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Supermodels contribute to spiraling low self esteem?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.145515.773@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov12.182022.9195@tellab5.tellabs.com> <BxsH9p.6FL@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <Bxtt3E.9s4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:55:15 GMT
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- In article <Bxtt3E.9s4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >
- >>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?
-
- The curious thing here is that you are inserting your own opinions
- of what is and is not pathetic, and berating Brain for these images
- not living up to your ideals.
-
- He did not mention what he considered beautiful/ugly, pathetic/non-
- pathetic, or sloppy/neat. Granted the last is not so much a matter
- or personal taste as the others.
-
- >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).
-
- But who knows if they were fun in bed or not? I suspect political
- ideologies are not a great indicator of funness in bed, or sexiness.
-
- >Lenore Levine
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- Rich
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