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From: wolit@rabbit.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Bald joke
Message-ID: <2772@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 11:34:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 11:34:32 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 03:35:49 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Well, you're right, your joke *DID* offend someone, though not for the
reason you think.  "Baldness" is a condition held in low esteem by our
society, and your propagation of the crude stereotype that bald people
are oversexed is no more appropriate here than when it is applied to
certain racial minorities.  For my part, I hope to help raise people's
consciousness by introducing the substitute term "hairing impaired," 
which carries with it none of the offensive connotations of "bald."
Try to be more sensitive, and avoid such denigrating constructions in
your speech as "bald-faced lies," etc.  (We, in turn, will refrain
from the use of "hairy" to describe bad situations.)

	"Shiny and proud, say it loud"

	from the "thinning" pate of
		Jan Wolitzky, ATT Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ :-)