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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: Re: Sexual attraction
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Date: 16 Nov 90 02:36:37 GMT
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In some article morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:

>30-64 as men think they're overweight. In a UC study, 58% of
>17-year-old girls said they were overweight; only 17% actually were.
>This farcical situation leads to low self-esteem and unneccessary

The pressures on men to be a *success*, and other cultural influence,
kill men faster than the cultural pressures (that you are so worried
about) that kill women.

Actually, on average, women live 10% longer than men...

>Forget feminism for a second, how about common sense and good health?

If you want to forget feminism and talk about health then I think that
would be a good idea to try solve the bigger problem (pressures that
kill men) too; since the subject has little to do with feminism I
direct the follow-up to soc.men