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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 16:33:36 EST
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In article <683@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K) writes:
>
>Am I correct?  Let's let Jerry answer for himself, eh?
>          
>				Scott J. Berry


My God!  A voice of reason in the wilderness!  Thank you, Scott.

I've already responded to some  of  the  comments  in  a  slightly  flamish
article  posted  yesterday.  Having cooled off a bit, I'd like to add a few
factual comments.

The current issue of the Mensa Bulletin (the national newsletter)  contains
an  article on the Playboy pictorial.  The article is written by one of the
women who posed and explains her thoughts and feelings  and  those  of  her
fellow  posers  on  the experience, how they were chosen, why they applied,
how they were treated by Playboy, etc.  The article includes several of the
less  revealing  pictures  from  the pictorial (does that make Mensa into a
bunch of pornographers? (-: ).

A friend of mine, one of the most fanatic feminists I know, had  previously
condemned  the behavior of the women in the pictorial (the knee-jerk almost
put a hole in her wall  (-:  ).  After  reading  the  article,  she  did  a
complete  turnaround,  decided  the pictorial was acceptable after all, and
_then_ decided to get a Playboy and see for herself what all the  fuss  was
about.

I'm _not_ going to type in the text  of  the  article  here.  It's  several
pages  typeset  and I haven't got the time.  Anyone who's really interested
can contact their local Mensa chapter (try the white pages under Mensa)  or
the  home  office in New York (American Mensa, Ltd., 2626 East 14th Street,
Brooklyn, NY, 11235, (718) 376-1925).

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