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From: mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: sexist language/bad attitudes
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 00:50:14 EDT
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>>Not quite...men have greater "permission" from society to do what pleases
>>them, even when it goes against societal norms.
>>Nancy Parsons
>...I think there are *tremendous* pressures against males doing pretty much
> anything that's "typically female".  Women are free to wear clothes designed
> for men as well as those designed for women.  Men, on the other hand, simply
> cannot wear a skirt and sandals to the office on a hot summer day.  And I
> imagine there are really serious pressures on male nurses and secretaries.
> I'm trying to imagine what a male secretary would put up with when some
> fellow asks him what he does over a beer in a bar.  Pretty grim, I bet.

Where I used to work, every day during National Secretaries' Week a flower would
appear on each secretaries desk.  One of the VPs was Judy S. and her secretary
Greg looked real cute next to the flower!

As to what you say:  ``I'm an assistant to the Vice President for ...''.
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