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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Title: attractiveness
Message-ID: <326@mit-eddi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 17:04:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 26 17:04:55 1983
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At the risk of getting castigated (and related things) I will
stick my neck out on this one:

Women dress up and look nice for other women (presumably, this
is some sort of competition?)  Well, at MIT, where there are
4-5 guys for each girl, most women tend not to dress up, since
they (correctly) feel that men will tend to regard them as 
pleasure units less than if they dress up and gob on make-up.
Everyone's obsessed with "the Ratio."  But women say that
they don't want to have to compromise their feminity just
to avoid being hassled.  Fine.  The first week I was in
Boston, as I naive 18-year-old, I went for a walk by the
river in the early morning.  I was wearing a satiny, silky
pair of jogging shorts.  This guy started following me, and
I KNOW that he didn't want my money.  I don't know if the
satiny shorts had anything to do with it, but I won't wear
them again when I'm out in those circumstances.  I don't 
care if I have to compromise my (no longer exists, don't
worry) sexiness.  I'd rather avoid trouble.
			-Randy
			rh@mit-eddie