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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP ([Oded Anoaf Feingold])
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Target size and character:
Message-ID: <121@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 15:25:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 15:25:51 1985
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Summary: women carrying alarms - amusing?

>Which reminds me of a VERY amusing scene a couple of years ago.
>I was in the main terminal room and a thunderstrike zapped out the
>entire power supply system of the computer center. Instant blackout.
>The only lights that came on (apart from a quite furious operator!)
>were the ones of the countless Oriental (Malaysian & Taiwanese) girls
>who were carrying miniature torches/alarm combos for the walk back to
>the dorm!!!
				(Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)

In other words, every one of them lived in fear of being attacked, and
shelled out money on a (fairly pathetic) object to improve her chances
in case she was.  Consider their feelings toward a lifetime of such
fear.  Are you using the term "amusing" advisedly?

Sorry for the grief, Mr. Triantafyllopoulos, but your message
symptomatizes an insensitive attitude, one which I don't think you
feel consciously.  (I'm probably the only one crude enough to remark
on it in public).
-- 

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