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  3. From: chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.supermodels,soc.women,alt.feminism,soc.men
  5. Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov9.233638.29606@tellab5.tellabs.com>
  7. Date: 9 Nov 92 23:36:38 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: tellab5.1992Nov9.233638.29606
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  15. In article <1992Nov7.171526.5511@wam.umd.edu> sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell) writes:
  16. > People are hurt
  17. >by having society being programmed to expect others to live up to an ideal
  18. >image.
  19.  
  20. People are hurt by hateful speech.  People are hurt by disturbing images,
  21. by troubling 'entertainments', by others forcefully expressing themselves.
  22.  
  23. This is, of course, the price of living in a society that respects freedom
  24. of speech.  There's rarely a need to protect 'nice' speech. 
  25.  
  26. Rather than raise adolescents who are so "sensitive" they'd never say
  27. anything that would "hurt" anyone, we need to raise adolescents who
  28. are tough enough, and who have the necessary critical analysis skills,
  29. to thrive in a world of free expression.
  30.