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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Re: Beach harassment:  some questions
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 09:30:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 09:30:26 1986
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> In article <917@whuxl.UUCP> stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) writes:
> >      If a woman wants to gets a "seamless" tan, and has a
> >good book she wants to read, and has a hour or two, what
> >better place to spend it than on a beach? ...
> 
> What sense is there in getting a seamless tan *on* *her* *back*
> *only*?  She can't, by undoing the top half of her bikini, get a
> seamless tan on the front of her body or below the waist.  I cannot
> convince myself that undoing the back of her bikini was not intended to
> attract men.

     A seamless tan on the back only can be quite nice, I'm sure, as various
types of halters and tops worn in the summer have narrow straps in slightly 
different locations.  A tan line on the back is often visible.  And since
this woman showed absolutely no interest in anything but reading, why do
you find it so hard to believe that she wasn't trying to attract men?
> 
> If she was truly interested in getting a seamless tan, wouldn't she go
> (a) to a nude beach, if she could find one, or (b) to one of those
> tanning salons?

      Maybe she's too shy to go to a nude beach.  A lot of people are.  And
why should she when she wasn't interested in going nude?  And why should she
go to a tanning salon.  Beaches are much nicer, and are free besides.  What's
your problem, buddy?  "My god, if she's going to undo the back of her top,
she'd better go to a nude beach or away from this public place."  What a
bizarre and warped attitude!
> 
> I'm mainly posting this because of the several thousand articles
> moaning about how impolite it was for those men to interrupt her
> reading, as if the undone bikini strap was of no consequence.

     That's right!  Here, I'll type it again, very loudly and slowly, so
maybe you'll be able to understand:  T H E   U N D O N E   B I K I N I
S T R A P    W A S   O F   N O   C O N S E Q U E N C E .
> -- 
> David Canzi
> 
> "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more
> certain they are their own." -- Aristotle

      And a little quote about how generally unfaithful women are!  Why do
I get the feeling that David is a philosophical brother of the guys on the
beach that day?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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