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From: ka@spanky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Re: shaving...why?
Message-ID: <463@spanky.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 01:14:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 29 01:14:44 1983
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I was rather surprised when I discovered a few years ago that I reacted
negatively to women who didn't shave.  This sort of cultural indoctrination
is insidious:  of course I don't think that women should be required to
shave, but growing up in a society surrounded by women with hareless legs
and underarms makes that seem like the natural order of things.  So I am
afraid that an *initial* negative reaction is more or less inevitable.  On
the other hand, a man who can't adjust to new things is probably a lost
cause anyway; if he's not wondering about your hairy underarms he will be
wondering why you have a job instead of staying in the home where you belong.
					Kenneth Almquist

PS. To anybody who doesn't want men submitting to this group:  too bad.
    The only way to keep men out of this group is to limit the discussion
    to panyhose.  The moment you start talking about men...