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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Self Mutilation
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 15:25:04 EDT
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> From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
>> From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) <1488@dalcs.UUCP>
>
>> I have always disliked the idea of self mutilation, as practiced by man or
>> women. The shaving of leg hair is just as barbaric as the shaving of facial
>> hair.  It is in the same class as wearing lip discs.
>
> And cutting your hair, and trimming your fingernails...

I don't think so.  Cutting your hair, trimming your fingernails, etc. is
for your own comfort and convenience.  While I don't necessarily agree
that shaving your legs or beard is self-mutilation, I do think it's done
primarily to bow to miscellaneous pressures to conform to some sort of
social norm.  It seems to me that each person should be able to choose
what's comfortable for him/her, without having to worry about what other
people will think, whether or not it will cause problems on job
interviews and in social situations, etc.

-- 

Melinda Shore 
University of Chicago Computation Center

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