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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: ``they'' vs *US*
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 15:10:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 15:10:01 1985
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Living on the south side of Chicago, and keeping late graduate-student hours,
all I do is dress like a guy, keep my hair short, and nobody has bothered me
in three years.  Yes I *do* walk alone after dark *frequently*.  I'm really
tired of this provocative clothing, high-heel sneaker and rape discussion, when 
it's pretty clear what the solution is:  look like a guy and nobody will bother 
you.  This does not entail any loss of "femininity"--it's only a disguise, an
appearance.  It's like my friend Jim who lives in an apartment on Manhattan's
lower east side...before he gets on the subway, he puts on a shabby coat and
a pair of ratty gloves with the fingers torn off, and pretends he's nodding
out and twitching on various drugs for the whole ride.  *NOBODY* has ever 
bothered him.  He considers this simple street-smarts, not some painful
sacrifice of his old-moneyed inner being.

As for me, I'm convinced enough of my femininity that I *don't* have to *prove*
it with clothing *OR* shrill rhetoric about *bad* men are.