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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard(?)
Message-ID: <746@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:35:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 14:35:07 1984
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>>> I don't see anything wrong with smiling and kind words
>>> in the workplace.  Will you accuse me (a man)  of  not
>>> being  feminist  just  because  I  enjoy an occasional
>>> smile from a woman  co-worker?    I  take  the  little
>>> pleasures  life  offers me unexpectedly, even if I can
>>> relate their causes to my sexual nature.  I think that
>>> is   not  unconsistent  with  my  view  of  myself  as
>>> feminist.

It all depends--how do you interact with your male co-workers?
If it's not the same, then you are by definition a sexist.
Somehow this alleged feminist reminds me of Hugh Hefner, who
has even offered money to women's organizations, and whose
magazine has championed assertive, liberated women--liberated
from housework so that they can be full-time sex objects but
assertive enough (if I can recall that great scene in "Tootsie")
to be responsible for their own orgasms.

You dork!  Can't "get any" with the old macho stuff, so maybe
try a little "soft sell"?  How original.  Yes, consider yourself
accused, and while you're at it, guilty as charged.
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