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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Axiom of the Month
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 20:08:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 20:08:20 1985
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To Ariel Shattan, and all the others who have replied and will reply to my
posting Sid Davis' Axiom ('Women don't lose weight to look good for men; they
lose it to look good for each other.  That's why they don't know when to stop.')

   The axiom does not refer to people like Ariel who are "20% over insurance
chart weight" (it might, actually, if she weighs only 20% more than an insur-
ance chart :-)), but to women who are acutely underweight (not necessarily
anorexic, despite Sid's titling it 'The Self-Perpetuating Anorexic Circle Axiom') and who continue to try to lose weight *despite* men's comments that they
are not fat.  This is only worsened by the fact that women don't comment on the
overweightness of other women (Do you see why, Ariel?  Because if women don't 
tell each other they're fat, they have no way of knowing what other women think
of their appearance, weight, etc).

Hope this serves to clear things up!

--Steve Blore, (really not a misogynist or a chauvinist, just a cynic)