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From: avery@netcom.uucp (Avery Colter)
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Subject: Re: Diversity
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Date: 25 Oct 90 20:55:25 GMT
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larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll):

> There's a group (one contingent calls itself in all seriousness the Fat
> Underground) that believes women should deliberately make themselves
> unattractive to men.

Uhhhh, you're just a tad off on that one methinks. The impression I got
was the the Fat Underground (a) believed that fat women should not
allow themselves to be considered "untouchables" by the police state,
and (b) saw attractiveness to men as a mostly peripheral issue.

There are a couple of NAAFA veterans who were in the Fat Underground,
and I have never gotten the impression that they thought themselves
unattractive; and they seem to be perfectly accepting of men whose
views on that matter are so obviously different from yours.

Enough partisan polemic. But do remember to watch those assumptions.


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