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- From: mvwjf@mvgpf.att.com (William J Fallon)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: Expression of attract
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:55:10 GMT
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- In article <92Dec19.125418edt.54564@zooid.guild.org> goid@zooid.guild.ORG (Will Steeves) writes:
- >cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes...
- >
- >I don't strictly consider it hypocrisy that some of the men who put
- >posters on their walls, disliked it when female reporters barged in on
-
- Oddly enough in four years of college high school sports, four years
- of college sports and 15 years in a private gym the only time I saw
- a locker with pictures of partially clothed women in it was when Sylvester
- Stallone forced open his locker after it had been given to someone
- else in the original Rocky movie.
-
- >them. The difference is that the women who posed for the posters, did
- >so *voluntarily*, which was *not* the case of many of the men who were
- >*involuntarily* displaying themselves.
-
- Almost all the college locker rooms we visited (including our own) and
- the New England Patriots locker room, scence of a famous confrontation
- between male athletes and a female reporter, have seperate shower areas
- away from the lockers so athletes don't have to be nude in the locker
- area unless they so chose.
-
- >Women athletes also generally *demand* the right to privacy, and male
- >reporters may not enter their locker rooms until they are *fully*
- >clothed.
-
- Not true in the Ivy league and can't say I've ever heard of this in
- a pro sport where there are TEAMS. It's true in many tennis and golf
- clubs which are PRIVATE clubs used for pro events.
-
- >
- >JMC> Besides, when women's team sports make as much money as men's do,
- >JMC> we can talk about turning the tables. Until then . . .
-
- Well you specified team sports but female tennis stars make more money
- than do the present crop of men as do female skaters and gymnasts.
-
-
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