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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: indoctrination
Message-ID: <530@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 19:04:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 19:04:38 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:47:46 EDT
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Reply-To: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
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Summary: 

>>>...here's another issue.  Young women
>>>are indoctrinated to want to be attractive (included in this are looks,
>>>clothing, and charm), and yet are discouraged from facing their sexuality.
>>>We're all supposed to be pretty and get the attention of men, but sex is a 
>>>Bad Thing, and sometimes the unmentionability of S** is so much that one 
>>>doesn't know what do when It looms (causing a panic reaction).

>> I would describe it a bit differently, but I think that we're saying the 
>> same basic thing.  The words "attractive" and "charming" don't sound quite
>> right to me.  Maybe "interesting" would be better.  

>Are you kidding?  *Where* have you been?  The Manhattanization of America
>has one message for all women, that we must be young and thin and beautiful.
>And if advertising isn't the most influencing force on young people growing
>up, then what is?

I think that you're nit-picking.  If you'd rather argue semantics than the
subject in question ("Why are some people Teases" in case you forgot) then
why didn't you say so before?

Anyway, since you brought it up why not just say "sexy"?  "Charming" and
"attractive" are nice words, but "sexy" seems to me to be more to the point.  
I'd even agree with you.

-- 
/Don

Whatever you do will be insignifiant, but it is very important that
you do it.   (Gandhi)

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