Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Putting a stereotype to death Message-ID: <386@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 23:04:19 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.386 Posted: Thu Aug 1 23:04:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 06:13:46 EDT References: <61RRe: A Question for the Women(Color Analysis) <986@mtgzz.UUCP> <365@timeinc.UUCP> <5556@tektronix.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 59 Summary: Moira, you mentioned doing it (Color Analysis) on a lark. Good! As it should be. Having some fun with clothes and colors should be just that: fun. But the conformity of it all gets to me. Some Person, someWhere, wrote some Book, that tells you someHow what colors look best on you. ("Look at me --- I'm a winter. Whoopeee!) And people actually take it seriously enough to defend! I'm no clothes horse (I usually work bare-assed or in shorts -- I'm self-employed), but I do have some sort of style: my own. I can determine for myself what to wear based upon my own opinions. The seriousness that some people in this group are defending this with....why? Seems funny to me. Such a silly little thing that a few people have called silly: and my mbox starts to fill up with hate mail. Look, they're only clothes! But when you need the security of wearing only what other people tell you to wear, be it the author of a book, or some actress who displays her thighs and tells me how much her Calvin's matter to her -- gimme a break. I would assume that most of you have people that can tell you if you're dressed foolishly. I should think that you would value their opinions a great deal more than someone who classifies people according to seasons! Consider this: the same people that would tell you what "season" you are also are the ones that magically enforce high-heels, make-up, and stockings, as well as three piece suits, short hair-cuts, and a variety of other fashion "demands". The ones who prey on your sense that you can't make a non-conformist decision. > >Ross, you've been awfully testy [hmmm....wonder what the origin >of *that* word is] lately. Are you at the effect of your >hormones, or something? :-) > Must be. Pity I can't pin it down to a certain cycle. Would it somehow be acceptable if I could? :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{vax135 | ihnp4}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. would make me their spokesperson. ---- "I had a cat. She died. Had a goldfish. Died. Guppies. Died. Gerbils. Died. Tippy. Died." - little girl "Alright! So I don't like small animals!" - Mr. Death