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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Self Mutilation
Message-ID: <481@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 11:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 11:27:15 1985
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References: <572@cadovax.UUCP> <371@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
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Summary: More than just conforming...

In article <371@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore) writes:
>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

Clearly you've never tried to eat a carmel apple with a full beard!  Have
you ever had your hair caught in the spinning shaft of a stacker while trying
to unload a lineprinter?  Both of these things have happened to me, and while
I would NEVER bow to peer pressure in my hair length or beard, I have CHOSEN
to shave (except for moustache) and keep my hair short enough not to need to
put it into a ponytail anymore.

I agree with you 1.023 * 10 ^ 23 percent that it should be a matter of personal
choice.  The whole idea of long hair (as *I* remember it) was that we do not
evaluate a person by his/her looks, but by what kind of a person that person
really is.  I respect your right to wear long hair, please respect my right to
wear short hair...

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Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA