Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: A flash from the (recent) past. Message-ID: <5781@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:21:45 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5781 Posted: Thu Oct 24 12:21:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:23:39 EDT References: <963@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 44 > > 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