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From: pedersen@cartan.berkeley.edu (Sharon L. Pedersen)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Female human aesthetics
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.040847.12287@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 04:08:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.160330.5995@midway.uchicago.edu> lecl@midway.uchicago.edu (elizabeth e. leclair) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct31.165944.15223@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>>> School found that women use 17-21 grooming products every morning.
>	Hmmm.  Here's my contribution to the survey:
	[Result: 6]

So I bought a new facial scrub, bringing my personal count up to
10-14, depending on what you count.  Does this mean I'm inching my way
towards moral and political depravity of using Too Many Personal
Grooming Products?  No, it means that we should resist this kind of
divisive statistic.  

The issue is not, that some women use what seems like to others of us
a large number of PGP's.  (And using make-up probably very quickly
brings the count up to 17).  The issue is, for us all to be FREE to
choose whether or not to use these and not have our choice dictated by
rigid societal norms.

--Sharon Pedersen
  pedersen@cartan.berkeley.edu   OR   ucbvax!cartan!pedersen