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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Beach harassment:  some questions
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 20:30:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 20:30:12 1986
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In article <2585@sdcrdcf.UUCP> alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) writes:
>Thanks, Moira and Jim for the kindly worded responses to my note.  I
>observed that Eric had rejected, out of hand, the possibility that the
>woman was playing a tease, even tho his description didn't rule out
>the possibility.

How can you say he "rejected" it? He didn't even *mention* it. That
probably means he didn't happen to think of it. I didn't either.
The question is not what she *might* have been doing, but what she
was *probably* doing. 

>I see the situation this way:
>
>	She *was* acting a little strangely for a woman who wanted to
>	be left alone. Going to a public beach; getting into a swimsuit
>	and unhooking the top; going alone.  This pretty well describes
>	the way a woman might look for a man.

Oh for pete's sake. If you've got a private beach, great, but generally
if people want to go to the beach, it'll be a public one. And any woman
trying to get a tan by herself is looking for a man? Remember, we're
talking about *probabilities* here, not *possibilities*. Anything's
possible.

					Jeff Winslow