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From: greenber@acf4.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sex generally
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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 23:36:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 23:36:00 1984
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Nf-From: acf4!greenber    Dec 16 23:36:00 1984

me:>
> As a little survey, would
>everybody who has ever known ANYONE who treated ANYONE as a sex object
>(and only as a sex object!) please stand up and be counted??

chuq:>>
>> If you haven't seen it, either you aren't looking
>> very hard or you don't understand what you are saying (the third
>> alternative, that you do it and don't realize it, probably doesn't fit--
>> you're obviously quite aware of your own attitudes).

There is a third (fourth?) area that you left out, chuq.  The possibility
that perhaps the people that I associate with (friends, business types, etc.)
might be of such a level of education (college or better) that these attitudes
really are not apparent.  After my initial posting here, I gave it quite
a bit of thought, and realized this might be the case.  The guys who whistle
at the women on the street probably DO see them as sex objects.  So I retract
my earlier flame.

Now, of course, the question begs:  Is it likely that there are very, very
few people on this net who treat others as sex objects??  I think the
answer would be YES....we are all probably too well educated, and therefore
perhaps too sensitive to do such a thing....(please, no flames about
educational snobbery, ok? Some educated people probably do treat others
as sex objects, but I'll bet you that the proportion in pretty low compared
to the uneducated)

Well, I can hope, can't I????


Ross M. Greenberg  @ NYU   ---->  allegra!cmcl2!acf4!greenber  <----