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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: what's rape?
Message-ID: <350@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 16:46:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 28 16:46:06 1984
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> 	Yes, the double standard exists, particularly in connotations
> associated with descriptive terms.  Can anyone seriously suggest that
> "bachelor" has any of the negative connotations of the equivalent feminine
> "slut"?  These two equivalent terms carry the implied connotations that
> promiscuity is ok for men, but not for women.

They do not.  And they're hardly equivalent.

-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

"Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein
do I delight."
				Psalm 119:35