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From: davej@yang.earlham.edu (David A. Jeroslow)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Sexual Attraction
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Date: 23 Nov 90 07:55:07 GMT
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Here's a quote I heard on television.


"Women learn to find attractive the man they love, whereas men learn to
love the woman they find attractive."

This goes well with what I've been taught since a child.  "Women care
more about who the man >is< rather than how they look."  I have even
heard this said by women my age.

Yet I find increasingly that these women are trying to paint a picture
for how they would >like< to be.  Too often I've seen intelligent
women, who are also feminists go out with some total asshole... with
a nice set of grabbable buns.  Yes, I've found women who "think with
their penis."

This doesn't bother me as much as the fact that these same women feel
that men should stop defining who women are, because men don't know
women.  Men overpower women because men are innately frightened of
women.  This is because women are "innately better than men."  "We
aren't so selfish and self-centered.  We like men who are smart and
nice first.  We don't think with our penis."

Just how true is this?