Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Diversity Message-ID: <1990Oct26.170150.9341@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 26 Oct 90 18:28:04 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 14 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu >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. >Enough partisan polemic. But do remember to watch those assumptions. I agree wholeheartedly. In my native Caribbean and in Latin America, I find men much more open-minded about what's "attractive" in female bodies. We do not close ourselves off to people because they aren't thin prepubescent boys with tits. Jones