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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 03:43:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 03:43:48 1985
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> > 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"
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	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