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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Immodestly Dressed Women in the Workplace
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 13:02:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 13:02:07 1985
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[Lisa Chabot:]
> It always seemed to me in cases like this that it's not the women who need to
> be banned, but instead the men who can't control themselves...
> 
> But, of course, we know from the deathless words of former LA police chief
> Ed Davis, that it's women in the workplace that cause all the "evils" of today's
> society, such as crime, homosexuality, and adultery: kiddies see that by mommy
> working, fooling around outside of marriage is okay, and therefore there is no
> moral code and robbing is okay too. (The jump from working to adultery and
> the further connection to homosexuality (and why it's bad) is left as an
> exercise for the reader.  Try ingesting large amounts of peyote and tequila?)

Does anyone know if an organization called SEAM (Society for the Emancipation
of the American Male) still exists?  I found a book written by a Mr. Samra
(one of the co-founders of this organization) in 1971 called (get this)
"The Feminine Mistake" that blamed all the world's problems on the fact
that women were going out to work and asserting their independence and
self-worth (as he put it, (incorrectly) rejecting their "tender, loving
feminine roles").  These problems include all those mentioned above, PLUS
such tidbits as desertion (of women by their husbands!), rape and mastur-
bation.  Don't all you working women feel GUILTY?

	marie desjardins