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From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
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Subject: Re: The Breakfast Club (not a review, but a comment)
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 11:58:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 11:58:22 1985
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In article <417@nmtvax.UUCP> nmhr@nmtvax.UUCP writes:

>	And to Raoul Duke (jla@usl), who said:
>
>> I much preferred the recluse before her metamorphosis; not only did I
>> fine her more attractive but I thought it awful that she would give up
>> her individuality to someone else's idea of beauty.
>
>	Well, Raoul...souns to me like you are trying to tell us what her
>idea of beauty was. Did it ever cross your mind that Allison could have
>had the same idea of beauty as Claire? Hmm? Does a girl have to give
>up her individuality to wear makeup and change her hair-style? 
>Because if that is true, then a man loses his individuality every time
>he puts on a new shirt of combs his hair differently. It's all surface
>stuff, Duke. What counts IS what's inside.

Certainly what counts is what's inside.  Possibly Allison always wanted to
to exemplify Claire's standards of beauty, but if her external presentation
had any relation to "what's inside," then Allison was more herself before her
makeover, as her insides were quite different from Claire's.

To me, Allison's 'makeover' was a rather negative message, as it seemed to
signify Allison capitulating to prevalent attitude of her society, and giving
up a bit of her freedom to be different.
   
-- 
				    Joe Arceneaux

				    Lafayette, LA
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"The one who grabs the bull by the tail is getting 60 to 70 times as
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