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From: djz@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Daniel Zigmond)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Immodestly Dressed Women in the Workplace
Message-ID: <349@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 17:12:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 17:12:24 1985
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In reply to Saumya Debtay's message:

It didn't seem at all to me the point of the original article about this
subject was "Boy are those Saudi Arabians dumb because they don't think
women should wear certain types of clothes."  That clearly would have been
inappropriate.  I interpreted the article to simply be pointing out that
this particular person seemed to think that immdoestly dressed women were
corrupting the minds of the (male) youth.  Obviously, this is nonsense.  I
wouldn't want women to work without shirts, but I don't think men should
either.  Either way, the only way I feel the youth could be corrupted is by
trying to imitate the elders they see dressed this way.  I don't think it
would be psychologically damaging as the letter implied.

Even if the male youths were "aroused" that only means that they need to be
taught a little self control.  There is no (significant) difference between
Saudi Arabian youths and the youths of African tribes where women go around
topless.  Why can't the Saudi Arabian boys handle it?  I may not want women
to go to work without shirts, but when I look through a National Geographic
essay on Africa, I am quite able to control myself.

	Dan Zigmond