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- From: DLM
- Subject: Re: Ageism
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:10:15 CST
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- In article <mattm-231292130250@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >One of my design instructors complained along much the same lines.
- >His argument - partly humorous and partly serious - was that
- >sexually frustrated gay fashion editors began "doing everything they
- >could to make the adult woman into a thirteen year old boy."
- >
- > I should point out that this thirteen-year-old-boy
- >transformation has not only hurt and alienated older gay men;
- >but it has been a constant source of torment to that much larger
- >segment of the population: women who sexually frustrated
- >gay fashion editors would *not* find in the least bit attractive.
- >
- >*X*
-
- I *knew* it!!!! The moment I saw my first pair of culottes (oh god
- let me forget) or those mutant 'gaucho' split-skirts, or the Edsel
- of fashion, the midi-skirt, I *knew* that these designers did *not*
- love women!
- I guess it would follow that the *true* designers of Nehru jackets
- and leisure suits were RadLesFems (tm)? :-)
-
- Diane (who is feeling a lot older than 13 at the moment...)
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