Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh 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 Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.326 Posted: Sun Jun 26 17:04:55 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 22:24:25 EDT References: ih1ap.157 Lines: 21 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