Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxq.746 Posted: Tue Mar 6 14:35:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:45:50 EST References: <642@orca.UUCP> <7018@watmath.UUCP>, <1774@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 29 -- >>> 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. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 06 Mar 84 [16 Ventose An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***