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From: pat@ih1ap.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Title: attractiveness
Message-ID: <157@ih1ap.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 08:56:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 08:56:47 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 14:29:02 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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Yesterday, we had an Affirmative Action meeting about sexual harrasment.
During this meeting, a movie called "The Power Pinch" was shown. In
this movie an interesting comment was made by a man interviewed about
the subject. He stated-

              "Women spend alot of money trying to make themselves
         attractive to the opposite sex, isn't this contradictory
         to the sexual harrasment issue?" (Not verbatim but I put in quotes)

I asked the question that since millions (billions?) of dollars are
spent on commercials and sold in products to women, can't this
seductiveness be construed as baiting? To my surprise every woman
there said they dressed up and wore makeup to look nice for the
other women and not to attract men! I know this is going to cause flames
but all the psychology used by the manufacturers imply to me that
this is not true. Look at magazines, "GLAMOUR, COSMOPOLITAIN?,etc".
Surely, the social pressure and industries place women in a
seductive role?


        Patrick Fargo
        BTL -IH !ih1ap!fargo!