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From: janec@tektools.UUCP (Jane Caputo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is feminism sexism by females?
Message-ID: <478@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 14:34:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 14:34:04 1985
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> In article <415@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) writes:
> >The ad ends again with the women seeing the beefcake
> >walking by in a skimpy bathing suit and exclaiming "Now that is
> >what I like" followed by various other comments directed at the guy,
> >with much lewd giggles.
> >
> >Now imagine the same ad with the genders reversed. We would all (rightly)
> >be outraged. Why do advertisers feel that treating men as pieces
> >of meat is all right? 
> >
> >Marcel Simon
> 
> Some people in the advertising industry will use any means they can get
> away with.  They probably think they can sell a lot of machines to guys
> who are having trouble attracting girls by usinbg that approach.  
> 
>            PKW 
> hplabs!oliveb!tymix!whitehur

I certainly don't advocate that approach, either as an advertising technique
or as a real-life response to the opposite sex.  However, I really wonder
if it *is* less offensive to men, simply because they don't have to put
up with it all the time.  It recently happened to my 16-year-old son, who
is a weight lifter.  He was walking around without a shirt on when a carful
of girls came by, hollering remarks and asking him to turn around.  He came
home and told me what an ego boost it was.  He was just disappointed that
they didn't stop to talk to him.  I wonder how many adult men would feel the
same way.

Jane Carrasco Caputo
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