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- From: paul@psych.toronto.edu (Paul Hastings)
- Subject: Re: Bears and Lookism (was: Marky Mark)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.233802.6861@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <69666@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov17.213558.4677@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> <BxxFB0.91H@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:38:02 GMT
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- In article <BxxFB0.91H@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.213558.4677@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
- >>Interesting discussion. How about the perspective of someone who is ugly?
- >
- >But first you'll have to find someone who'll come out as ugly...
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- NEVER!
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- >>Personal tastes are fine; like you, I have no sexual taste for
- >>the hairless set. But saying "ugh" is just plain cruel.
- >
- >Cruel? I don't think so. One has to accept that, whatever one's looks,
- >some people are going to swoon over them, most will be indifferent, and
- >some will go Ug.
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- Speak for yourself, Hon.
-
- >In plainer words: if he has set himself up to sell his visual
- >attractiveness, then his attractiveness (or lack of it) is a matter for
- >fair public comment. This, I'd say, would include utterances like Ug
- >as much as those like Yum.
-
- ...which you follow with...
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- >6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
-
- Yum so far, child.
- Brian dear, set up your fab system and lets delve into the pix.
- Let's see if Kay lives up to the trailers.
-
- >Kay Dekker
-
- Deck 'er? Why, we haven't even been formally introduced.
-
- -paul
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