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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Why are many low-income women fat? (was Re: Separate but Equal?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.210442.9390@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:04:42 GMT
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- In article <Bzq9q5.78w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >Some of these people are actively dating, but most of them are over 30.
- >You're right, that people's tastes, both culinary and sensual, do
- >change with age.
-
- Agreed.
-
-
- >Nowadays, I prefer sushi to sweets. I also find character plays a
- >larger role in physical attraction, than it did when I was young.
-
-
- A lot of people pay this lip service, because
- it's the in thing to do (and, for men, the only
- safe thing to do around women). Still, I'll take
- it at face value.
-
- >> Not the type of boycott I'm referring to. The type of boycott
- >> I'm referring to (feminists marching outsode the building spreading
- >> subversive "evidence" of sexism) is sad and immoral--it's right
- >> up there with Operation Rescue and Lambs of Christ in terms
- >> of sleaze.
- >
- >> Using force and manipulation to push the views of an otherwise
- >> uninvolved minority onto the people involved. ^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
-
- >The difference between the Montgomery bus boycott, and the feminist
- >boycotts you describe, is in the goals, not the tactics.
-
- Perhaps so, perhaps so. Perhaps, also, the validity of the
- goals. (That is, how valid are they next to the rights that
- they trample).
-
-
- >If you want me to comment on the *goals* of a *specific* boycott,
- >you have to describe them.
-
-
- Take a look at the feminist actions against a that radio
- station in Canada for playing a beatles song--boy, those
- people would make Terry Randall proud.
-
- >Lenore Levine
- >levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
-
-
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