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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:21:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 12:21:45 1985
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> Re: A flash from the (recent) past._______________________________
> 
> >>> I've _got_ to start going to more regional gatherings [now
> >>> that I've seen pictures of naked Mensa women in _Playboy_].
> >>  One would think that a member of Mensa . . . would have more
> >>  sense than to pollute this newsgroup with such sentiments.
> >   Stop being such a prig.
> 
> 	Name-calling, eh?  Stop being such a child.

So tell me. What is the difference between me calling you a prig and
you calling me a child? Practice what you preach. and preach. and preach.
  
> > Just because you feel guilty about being interested in pretty
> > women is no reason to expect that others will have the same
> > problem.
> 
> 	Interesting prognosis.  Too bad it's totally off the mark.
> I have no problem dealing with pretty women (or with pretty men,
> for that matter).  At any rate, the point is irrelevant, since
> what we're talking about is a _Playboy_ pictorial.  _Playboy_
> pictorials generally consist of photographs that have been
> airbrushed and painted until they depict an artificial poreless
> sex robot.  No woman looks like that, including the woman who was
> in the original photograph.
> 
> 	Mensa is an organization formed for people with high IQs
> to find others with high IQs to socialize with.  Apparently women
> with high IQs aren't what the author of the original article is
> interested in, but women "suitable" for _Playboy_ provoke his
> interest enough to attend "more regional gatherings."
> 	I hardly think that this is the newsgroup to express such
> sentiments.
> 		<_Jym_>

I apologize if my prognosis was, indeed, incorrect. However, I find your
attitude of assumed moral superiority to be offensive enough that it's
hard to feel very sorry about it.

Ad for the other points raised, I refer you to my reply and Peter Barbee's
reply to Heather Emanuel's interesting posting.

					Jeff Winslow