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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
- Message-ID: <9008@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:20:49 GMT
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- In article <ewright.727736220@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >feet to make them appear smaller and more attractive. In the United
- >States, just 20 years ago, it was generally accepted that women should
- >be soft, rather than the "hard bodies" popular today. Muscles on women
- >were considered unattractive.
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- I've always thought that the best example of this was the whole tanning
- phenomenon... until relatively recently, women in Western societies attempted
- to appear as pale as possible (and did things like take milk baths to try
- to lighten their skins).
-
- --Diamond
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- diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress
- | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the
- | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
-