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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Beach harassment:  some questions
Message-ID: <971@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 15:01:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 15:01:12 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
> ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j




         Thanx. Your reply was better than mine could have
been, and you said it all.
-- 
whuxl!stu16