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From: gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Female human aesthetics
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Date: 31 Oct 90 23:56:00 GMT
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In some article morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:

>Women in North America suffer from a standard of "beauty" which is
>unrealistic and downright unhealthy for many of them.

All over history the ideal "beauty" has always been something that
most people could not achieve.  To think that you can change that is
unrealistic...

>We need to turn the clock back on this little bit of "progress", I think.

I'm not going to decide what *I* like by Politically Correct
standards, but I have no objection that you will do just that...

>More important, we need to attack the double
>standard which judges women much more by appearance than men.

If you think that women don't judge men by
their appearance then you are *wrong*.