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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:18:03 MST
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- From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
- Subject: attractiveness and such
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 24 Dec 1992 03:09:45 GMT from <kieran@WORLD.STD.COM>
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- On Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:09:45 GMT Aaron L Dickey said:
- >Unfortunately, less attractive women, while not having to deal with the
- >catcalls as often, will find themselves locked out of so much in life that
- >they deserve to experience just as much as the others.
- >
- See my last post....this is just NOT the case....the main risk to women
- who are 'less attractive' is lack of self esteem....and THAT can come from
- men, and even more so from women, who tell them they are worthless shits
- because they aren't beautiful, are chubby or fat, 'could be so pretty if
- you'd just lose a few pounds', and all that.....gail can testify to that...
- after years of being told she was too fat she lost lots of weight...from
- 330 to 119....and found that even that didn't help the selfesteem that had
- been so carefully destroyed by a number of men, starting with her father...
- once she learned that she WAS smart and talented and capable of doing
- 'hard things' like sending email and so on, things turned around....
-
- for xmas present one of her staff gave her a tshirt saying 'Internaut'....
- and she is....the HP-Boise Internet expert...as far as resources go....she
- won't make any pretense of being the tcp/ip hardware/software expert, but
- as long as the techies keep the damn connections running, she'll find
- any of the 4500 employees on site what the need on the nets....
-
- dan
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