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From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Body Image, High Heels and All...
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 15:36:34 EDT
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Re: Body Image, High Heels and All...___________________________________________

> Are we to believe that normal market forces don't work when it comes to
> women's shoes?
>				   * * *
> If women *truly* didn't want to wear such shoes they wouldn't buy them and if
> they didn't buy them the vendors would begin selling something that they
> *would* buy.

	Ah yes, "normal" market forces.  Which happen to include advertising, a
profession dedicated to the mass manipulation of behavior.  A profession which
has an astounding battery of research findings and techniques to accomplish just
that.
	Please don't give us an Economics 101 lecture.  If you can't resist the
urge to enlighten people about how wonderful "normal" market forces are, at
least keep it in net.politics.

> As to the suggestion that women buy [high heels] because they have been con-
> ditioned to do so, think a moment about *who* conditioned them. . . . their
> mothers.

	That's right; blame the mothers.  It's in vogue these days, you know.
(Just sit in on a child abuse court case.  Usually it will be the father who
is providing the abuse; yet the case will almost certainly revolve around how
poorly the mother protected the child!)
		<_Jym_>

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