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From: ames!claris!netcom!avery@ncar.ucar.EDU (Avery Colter)
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Subject: Re: female human aesthetics
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Date: 26 Nov 90 17:25:16 GMT
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rebecca@athena.mit.edu (Rebecca D Kaplan) writes:

>was impractical to impossible.  Have you heard of michigan womyn's
>music festival?  It's a gathering of 7,000 womyn for 5 days.  And at
>it, almost no one wears makeup, there are no mirrors.  This, itself is
>an amazing psychic experience, spending a week in an environment with
>NO mirrors.  Totally can alter one's perspective on aesthetics.

The killer is, they probably really are more beautiful without all the
processed gunk on their faces.

Never been in woman-only space (obviously), but if it is a way for
them to find true beauty and true harmony with their physical
elements, then I'll gladly give wide berth.

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