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From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Conforming
Message-ID: <5237@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 18:48:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5237
Posted: Mon May  6 18:48:05 1985
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References: <6680@Glacier.ARPA> <1425@reed.UUCP> <6976@Glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: Price of conforming

In article <6976@Glacier.ARPA> blatt@Glacier.ARPA (Miriam Blatt) writes:
>
>Well, I'm sorry, but all the men I know prefer shaved legs, including
>my husband (sigh), but seem willing to tolerate the hair when I
>emphasize that my time is important to me and I have better things
>to do.....
>
>
>					Miriam Blatt
>					blatt@su-amadeus.ARPA
>					...!decvax!decwrl!su-amadeus!blatt

Good grief, you mean you have to give excuses?  Oh, well.  It may make
it easier to get along with people to take a little trouble to conform,
but these sorts of things have their price.  If it's one big conformity
or a lot of little ones, it's too onerous.  On the issue of shaving your
legs (something that society doesn't expect of me, and I don't expect
of anyone else), each woman must decide for herself if it's something
she *wants* to do as part of her self-image.  And no comments from the
Peanut Gallery (husbands, SO's, friends, bosses, neighbors, etc.)  It's
strictly personal, and whatever the woman who would have to do the shaving
decides is LAW.  Whatever the woman decides, others will get used to it.
But for every conformity, we lose some of our individuality, so don't
conform too much.
-fini-
			       -Eric
Shade and sweet water...       mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP