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!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard Message-ID: <3554@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 01:06:25 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.3554 Posted: Tue Mar 6 01:06:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:43:59 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 Forgive me if I am wrong, but it seems to me a disproportionate number of those complaining about the woman's behavior (and supporting statements from Barbara and Ariel) are students, who presumably have never had to consistently deal with the problem. Well, allow me to indulge in a gender switch in another famous saying: "Everything is easy to the woman who doesn't have to do it herself." please, please can't we cut out all of this sensationalism about "morality" and "prostitution"? Can't we just admit that if someone has an ability to better themselves, they should use it, considering that the only objection to it is a purely theoretical political one (which in my book is no objection at all)? the (occasionally) tolerant, Jeff Winslow