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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is feminism sexism by females?
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 17:14:54 EDT
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> > 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
> 
> 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

I've only been whistled at twice in my life, both times in the last couple
of years, and both times by teenage girls.  It seems that equality of the 
sexes may have to take the form of women becoming more aggressive before
men become any less aggressive.  It might actually be good in the long run,
forcing each sex into the same problems could give us a little more empathy
for each other.
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