Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site 3comvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: Re: A flash from the (recent) past. Message-ID: <261@3comvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 03:43:48 EST Article-I.D.: 3comvax.261 Posted: Fri Nov 1 03:43:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:32:14 EST References: <742@decwrl.UUCP> <5751@tekecs.UUCP> <1171@rayssd.UUCP> <383@dsi1.UUCP> Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA Lines: 41 [don't eat lines, they'll rot your teeth.] > > And by the way, as long as there are people who feel that not "being > > interested in pretty women" in pornographic magazines is a "problem" > > then I, as an individual woman, am going to be robbed of a little > > of my identity. > > > > From the heart, with sadness, > > > > --Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, raybed2} rayssd!hxe > As long as all or any of your identity is dependent on other people, then you > have been "robbed" of nothing--you gave it away! > > Lee And, I'd prefer not to be flamed for saying this (I can take it, though, if someone can't resist), but being "robbed of a little of my identity" by a *picture* sounds very much like primitive peoples who think that someone taking their photograph "steals their soul." The difference in this case is that it is a picture of somebody *else* that is purported to be stealing Heather's "identity." All this doesn't seem very rational to me. -- Michael McNeil 3Com Corporation "All disclaimers including this one apply" (415) 960-9367 ..!ucbvax!hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's formation; Who then can know the origins of the world? None knows whence creation arose; And whether he has or has not made it; He who surveys it from the lofty skies, Only he knows -- or perhaps he knows not. *The Rig Veda*, X. 129