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- From: goid@zooid.guild.ORG (Will Steeves)
- Subject: Re: Expression of attract
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- Message-ID: <92Dec19.125418edt.54564@zooid.guild.org>
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:58:20 GMT
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- cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes...
- (JMC)
-
- rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brenner) writes:
- (RHB)
-
- RHB> Another example of this sexual double standard occurs in the now
- RHB> famous (o infamous) female-reporter-in-male-lockerroom story. Can
- RHB> you imagine the ho if male reporters tried to muscle (or wheedle)
- RHB> their way into the locker- rooms of female athletes after an
- RHB> event? Could it be justified on the basi that otherwise
- RHB> significant, career-damaging opportunity is denied to the
- RHB> reporter?
-
- JMC> The thing that I found offensive was thinking about how most of
- JMC> those men (and I've been in locker rooms before) have pictures
- JMC> all over their locker doors of obscenely degraded women splayed
- JMC> out lke they were created to do just that, and yet when a woman
- JMC> walks in and sees their nekkid bEEhinds, all of a sudden that's
- JMC> wrong. It was the hypocrisy I disliked, not the action itself.
-
- 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
- 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.
-
- Women athletes also generally *demand* the right to privacy, and male
- reporters may not enter their locker rooms until they are *fully*
- clothed. Why do male athletes not receive this same right?
-
- 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 . . .
-
- *This* is why you believe that female reporters should be allowed to
- barge in on partially-undressed men? Come on, let's be reasonable.
- The reason why female athletes do not currently make as much as male
- athletes, is because there is more *demand* for male athletes (ie.,
- and therefore more *money* is pumped into the industry...), which is
- also the reason why male models and centrefolds generally make *much*
- less than women in the same roles - there is more demand and more
- money.
-
- In this case, the issue is economics, *not* sexism.
-
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