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From: rrrm@cwruecmp.UUCP (R Robertson + R McGuire)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: first love... - (nf)
Message-ID: <798@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 10:57:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 10:57:59 1983
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Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
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I'm offended at that cave{wo}man joke.  We cave-people have a hard enough
time overcoming the various prejudices against us without having people
tarnish our reputations by telling slanderous jokes about us.  Do you 
have any idea of the damage done by these well-meaning but none-the-less
harmful 'jokes'?  A prospective employer takes one look at the leopard
skin that one of us might be wearing and turns us down on the spot.  I
have my M.S. and am working on my doctoral thesis in computer engineering,
but as soon as the interviewer for IBM or some other big corporation sees
my club, he crumples up my application without even looking at it.  These
problems run over into our private lives also.  When I'm in bar, looking
for some action girls shun me because they think I'll drag them around
by their hair, and all the guys feel that they have to prove their mas-
culinity by beating me up.  I'm no wimp but you try to take on five semi-
drunk construction worker types and see how you feel afterwords.   When
I was an undergraduate I had the biggest problems in the dining commons.
How many people do you think wanted to sit next someone eatin