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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!kieran
- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Message-ID: <Bzp7G1.MF3@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <WORDS-L%92122219365950@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:02:25 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
-
- >I hope some woman some time, Steve, never raises her eyes above your
- >crotch, the way that some men never raise their eyes above a woman's
- >chest. These are the guys I would like to make a stop at PMS Sporting
- >Goods, Guns and Ammo, for.
-
- Sometime I wonder if all the poor "sexually harrassed" women of this world
- don't actually know how good they've got it. (NOTE: In this instance I'm
- referring to sexual harassment of the whistles-and-catcalls-on-the-street
- variety; I don't doubt there's a lot of honest rape and job-on-the-line
- harrassment going on as well.)
-
- Okay, you're an amazingly attractive woman with a perfect figure. You get
- hooted at and ogled all the time. Just keep in mind that this same
- Neanderthal atttude is the same one that allows you to get better jobs and
- promotions, gives you at least a shot of being a famous star, and allows
- you to actively date, in the hopes of someday finding the right mate and
- having a happy family life.
-
- Now pretend you're an "unattractive" woman (or man, it doesn't matter).
- Not only do you not get catcalls, you get totally ignored, or scorned, or
- even publicly attacked as a "beast". You won't get that promotion,yet you
- feel lucky that you ever got a job in the first place, since most
- employers want someone who's easy on the eyes more than they want
- competence. You'll never be on TV, unless you get arrested for something
- and your mug shot ends up on-screen for millions to laugh at. And you'll
- probably spend months or even YEARS without being asked out on a single
- date, and run a much higher risk of spending your entire life alone...all
- because you don't fit American society's equation of "attractiveness =
- worthiness".
-
- The moral here is: Sexual harrassment works both ways, and I'm getting a
- little tired of hearing what assholes we men are when many of us (and many
- women) are just as persecuted as the Beautiful People, only in the
- opposite direction. Life ain't fair...get used to it.
-
- Oh, Happy Holidays by the way. :)
-
- --Aaron
-
- PS-- There's a magazine out there called "Women and Guns", in case you're
- looking for a last-minute gift idea.
-
-