Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: ames!claris!netcom!avery@ncar.ucar.EDU (Avery Colter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Female human aesthetics Message-ID: <17316@netcom.UUCP> Date: 26 Nov 90 17:26:53 GMT References: <9011012313.AA11775@rpp386.Cactus.ORG> <8654@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <658245246@lear.cs.duke.edu> <1990Nov11.171709.25842@arris.com> Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 13 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu I sense a very broad collectivization of the genders which seems to stand in stark contrast to the whole core of our capitalist system. While I think there may be validity in having to look a certain way to be attractive to a particular person, I think it problematic in the least to try to deal with any idea of something being attractive to any group of people who are grouped in any way other than a stated preference for the quality in question. -- Avery Ray Colter {apple|claris}!netcom!avery {decwrl|mips|sgi}!btr!elfcat (415) 839-4567 "I feel love has got to come on and I want it: Something big and lovely!" - The B-52s, "Channel Z"