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From: hallett@positron.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163	)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWharehouse
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Date: 24 Oct 89 15:45:48 GMT
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Reply-To: hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett (414) 548-5163)
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In article <26933.2542AACD@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> 
>I wrote a paper for linguistics class that depended heavily on the obvious 
>sexism exhibited by MacWarehouse (or, as you imply, MacWhorehouse).  "Hi,
>I'm Kerry!  Call me!"  Sheesh.  'Course, if you leaf through their
> [stuff deleted]
>and brought home my first Macworld magazine.  Programs Plus and
>MacConnection don't need such blatant sexism to sell product.


Yawn.  You know, there are  LEGITIMATE places to  find sexism, racism,
etc without digging this deeply.

The  last time  I  called MacWarehouse,  I jokingly  asked to speak to
Kerry.  The (male) receptionist  chuckled and commented that  they get
picked on fairly regularly about the ad  campaign.  The motivation was
to show how  friendly and human the  sales staff is.  Kerry originally
got top billing because she was the first sales receptionist.

Whooopdedo.  It's kinda dumb,  but  keep things  in perspective - it's
not  worth getting   that upset  about  and flinging  about  a lot  of
far-fetched accusations.  Since  you shop there,  you obviously aren't
that upset about it...


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	     Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
      GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414, Milwaukee, WI  53201
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