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From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: female attractiveness
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 12:02:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 12:02:10 1985
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	>BTW, would you want to buy an article of clothing that detracted
	>from your physical appearence? If you saw someone in an ad that
	>was "big breasted, fine-assed, dark" you might not also see the
	>"beautiful". And worse yet, from the sellers point of view, you
	>might think she looks that way because of what she's wearing.

I think you have missed the whole point of the original article.
You are simply reiterating the idea that only the skinny WASP is beautiful.
The big-breasted fine-assed women ARE beautiful. So, if we saw such models
we would not think their clothes were making them less than beautiful -- we
would think they were beautiful and, further, we would be able to see what
their clothes would look like on US. 
You seem to be trying to tell us that we wouldn't want to wear what the
womanly model is wearing lest it make us look womanly as well. Except some
of us already look womanly and we like it that way!!

	>... the retailers and manufacturers think nobody wants to look this
	>way. They are selling you the dream of a WASP appearence. And
	>considering the extremes that many women (and men) go to in trying to
	>cover-up their heritage, they seem to be right.

Perhaps a few non-WASP models showing up in magazines could break this vicious
circle -- the ad people selling undernourished because "the masses want it" and
"the masses want it" because they are bombarded with the image, unremittingly.

Anyway, folks, there is hope. Twenty years ago one would never have seen an
Oriental or black model. Now they're seen in the Sears catalogue. (Someone
finally figured out that non-WASPs wear clothes, too). Also, the
advent of fashionable clothes for fat women has resulted in some fat (still
WASPy) models being seen in various magazines. Who knows what could come
next??

   --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM
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