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Subject: Re: Christine Craft's Sex Discrimination - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Aug 18 00:50:00 1983


Carl neglects the most telling part of the phrase that won the suit against
this woman's former employers: "...and not deferential enough to men."

The papers play up the age/looks aspect, but they're in the image-making
business themselves.  What it really comes down to is that she didn't kiss
certain male posteriors in the time-honored tradition of TV news.

To my mind, that's setting a far more important precedent than how old or
"unattractive" a women newscaster can be.  I happen to find Barbara Walters
("Babwa Wawa"), about as unattractive as a person can be: polite only when
on the way to being nasty, and with all the intellectual depth-perception of
a dried garbanzo bean.  She could be 22, and a latter-day Garbo, and still
be ugly with a personality like that.  I mean, I remember when she inter-
viewed the Shah of Iran, and I ended up feeling sorry for HIM!

	Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)