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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 17:40:38 EDT
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Jerry says:
> > > The Playboy Mensa pictorial . . . has finally appeared in this
> > > month's issue. . . . I've _got_ to start going to more regional
> > > gatherings.

To which Jym replies (three cheers!):
> > 	One would think that a member of Mensa - as you have
> > announced yourself to be (in a rather roundabout way) - would have
> > more sense than to pollute this newsgroup with such sentiments.
> > 		<_Jym_>

Which prompts Jeff to say:
> Stop being such a prig. Just because you feel guilty about being interested
> in pretty women is no reason to expect that others will have the same
> problem.
> 				Jeff Winslow

Ooh, this makes me mad!!!!!  First, I'm surprised at you, Jeff.
You're usually not like this.  Maybe you were kidding?

On the assumption that you were serious: are you *crazy*?  Haven't
you been listening AT ALL to the overwhelming sentiment of the
postings in this group for the last two years?  This is net.women,
started for discussions by and about women.  Most of the women who
post or respond via personal mail to various posters have made it
QUITE CLEAR that we view pornography as something that demeans us as
a whole and offends us as individuals, NOT as "being interested in
pretty women."  Even if you don't agree with that, and even if *Jym*
doesn't agree with that, Jym's posting was pointing out that most of
us *do* agree with that.  As such, I feel your attack on Jym was
unwarranted.

And by the way, as long as there are people who feel that not "being
interested in pretty women" in pornographic magazines is a "problem"
then I, as an individual woman, am going to be robbed of a little
of my identity.

From the heart, with sadness,

-- 
--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, raybed2} rayssd!hxe
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