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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 01:42:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 01:42:20 1985
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From Jym Dyer (dec-vaxuum!dyer):
>>>> I've _got_ to start going to more regional gatherings [now
>>>> that I've seen pictures of naked Mensa women in _Playboy_].
[Jerry Hollombe]

	Is this an honest attempt at paraphrase, or a hidden editorial
comment? Why do you assume that it is the nudity, rather than the beauty of
the women pictured, which provoked Jerry's light-hearted comment?

>	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.

	Jeezus, lighten up, guy. Are you saying it's politically correct to
like women for their brains, but not for their beauty? Jerry saw photos of
beautiful and (based on their Mensa membership) intelligent women. He made a
remark implying he wouldn't mind meeting them. Well, I haven't seen the
magazine, but I'm willing to bet there were some pictures of women *I'd* like
to meet, too. Perhaps someone can explain to me why that is sexist, or
whatever it's supposed to be.

-  Evil is in the mind of the beholder -        Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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