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From: Thomas.Farmer@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Who gets to look
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Date: 22 Nov 90 02:36:57 GMT
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[This is a resend of the earlier mangled article (due, I think, to
line noise on my modem).  Since neither of us managed to save it, this
is a paraphrase of the original article.  --CLT]

Some people were commenting about how men 'ogle' women.

I just had one contra example...

Recently I saw a woman dressed completely in black. I don't mean she
was wearing mainly black clothes. This was ALL black!

I scanned my eyes up and down her body - looking for the smallest hint
of colour - a label perhaps. Nope. This was all black.

Then I was surprised to see that this woman was looking at me in a
very hostile way. I then realised that she thought I had been ogling
her body or something and was therefore offended.

I don't know about you lot, but it seems to me that the more we expect
to be offended, the more offended we get, even by innocent actions.