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From: chrise@ihuxq.UUCP (Chris Edmonds)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Clothing as an Invitation
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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 13:19:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 13:19:04 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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This is a question which has been bothering me for years.  Observing
the direction of some articles in net.women makes me believe I might
get a real response to my curiousity.  The question is this:

Do women who come to work in a blue or white collar environment dressed
in blue jeans and a sweater that look like they are glued on, know what
their appearance does to the normal heterosexual male?

This question raises lots of others:

What do they expect the response to be?  Do they mind being looked at
as sex objects?  (I can't help it...that's how my body/mind responds...
it's why homo sapiens isn't extinct.)
Are they prepared to deal with an offensive response?
(What IS an offensive response to "them"?

Please don't misunderstand my thirst for knowledge.  I am not refering
to offensive remarks made to a professionally
feminine (but quite attractively) garbed woman.  Neither am I looking
for an attack on people who stare but who need to control themselves.

Chris Edmonds at AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL

[this isn't anybody's work but my own]