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- From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
- Subject: Re: Sexist? Dangerous?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.185741.3181@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
- Organization: soc.women
- References: <1992Nov13.100559.16318@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov16.075243.8338@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:57:41 GMT
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- barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
- > Yes, but that's not what I'm disputing. What you _said_ was that
- > "compliments on appearance are rude".
-
- You know Kenn, this may or may not surprise you,
- but I would pretty much go along with that. For one
- thing, so-called etiquette experts such as Miss
- Manners do hold that it's rude, even though many
- people (particularly women) do it anyway. I would
- agree with Miss Manners, if for no other reason than
- it tends to make the recipient self-conscious.
-
- Now oddly enough, while I find "polite" remarks
- about my clothes or appearance to be annoying, I enjoy
- complimentary remarks that make it obvious the
- remarker finds me sexually attractive, be they female
- or male. Go figure.
-
- Perhaps this is because most of us males who
- aren't famous musicians, or whatever, are so
- infrequently treated as sex objects that we enjoy
- it when it occasionally occurs. I am, however, as
- sure as I can be (short of being one) that if I were
- a woman I would tell some man clueless enough to
- walk up to me as a total stranger and remark about
- my appearance to fuck off. The reason I would do
- this is because I would believe any reasonably
- intelligent and perceptive man would know how often
- women are harassed by men using this approach and
- would never dream of taking the chance of being
- mistaken for yet another asshole. Because just
- going on pure numbers, the overwhelming probability
- would be that he *was* just another asshole.
-
- --Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
- {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
- ^---------------The Wrong Choice
- internet: kennedy@asuvax.asu.edu
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