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From: lmf@drutx.UUCP (FullerL)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Jym Dyer's response to the Mensa/Playboy remarks
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:16:02 EDT
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I think Jym's point (which follows) is very well presented and I agree.
I also agree with Heather's response on the subject. These kind of 
remarks do not belong in net.women. (Feels like a mild form of sexual
harassment to me).

		Lore Fuller  ihnp4!drutx!lmf


	> Interesting prognosis.  Too bad it's totally off the mark.
> I have no problem dealing with pretty women (or with pretty men,
> for that matter).  At any rate, the point is irrelevant, since
> what we're talking about is a _Playboy_ pictorial.  _Playboy_
> pictorials generally consist of photographs that have been
> airbrushed and painted until they depict an artificial poreless
> sex robot.  No woman looks like that, including the woman who was
> in the original photograph.

	> Mensa is an organization formed for people with high IQs
> to find others with high IQs to socialize with.  Apparently women
> with high IQs aren't what the author of the original article is
> interested in, but women "suitable" for _Playboy_ provoke his
> interest enough to attend "more regional gatherings."
	> I hardly think that this is the newsgroup to express such
> sentiments.
		> <_Jym_>