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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: Is feminism sexism by females?
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:41:57 EDT
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> > 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 
> 
> 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

If a man posted that article in response to a complaint by a woman
about a sexist ad, would he not get flamed to death as an insensitive,
testosterone-poisoned, "macho asshole"?

No, Ms Caputo, generic men are not less offended by being considered
a piece of meat, even if one weightlifting teenager sees it as an ego
boost.

Marcel Simon