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From: morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Female human aesthetics
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Date: 29 Oct 90 18:56:29 GMT
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huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>To me, that's the point.  If we don't work for a society where these
>perceptions are different we probably won't get such a society.  If we
>do, we still might not, but at least we're trying.

That's just the point of any kind of progressive movement, not to sit there in
apathy but to agitate and educate children so that the next generation won't
carry our monkeys on their backs.

>I don't expect your feelings to be under your conscious control.  Mine
>aren't.  Why should yours be?  But you can influence your feelings by
>your thoughts and you can influence your thoughts by your actions.
>And yes, it takes time, is subtle, and is only marginally voluntary.

Women in North America suffer from a standard of "beauty" which is unrealistic 
and downright unhealthy for many of them. We need to turn the clock back on this
little bit of "progress", I think. More important, we need to attack the double
standard which judges women much more by appearance than men.

Jones
Physics Department
California Institute of Technology