Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard(?) Message-ID: <3546@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 02:45:42 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.3546 Posted: Sat Mar 3 02:45:42 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 23:21:54 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 > Not knowing any more of the details, my feeling would be that > such manipulation was degrading (to both parties) and morally > objectionable. Even if it was, it would be between consenting adults, and therefore appropriate. I have a feeling you would have a hard time convincing the woman in this case that she was degrading herself - she sounds like the type who knows very well what she's doing and who would resent puritanical and condescending judgements like the above. As for her actions being inconsistent with her feminist attitudes, sure it is, but presumably she's human like the rest of us, and you can't blame her (outside of the heat of an argument, anyway) for that. Jeff Winslow