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From: spp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Stephen P Pope)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: JAP jokes
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 18:23:49 EST
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 Gene Ward Smith:
>  A Berkeley professor who studied thousands of Jewish American Princess
>jokes over the past five years has concluded that such jokes are an attack
>on women and feminism.

Are you sure about this????  Unless I'm mistaken, the professor
is Alan Dundes and I really doubt he would come to such a
conclusion.  I've read a couple descriptions of his recent
JAP joke work and none of them referred to this conclusion.

Maybe he just stated this as a disclaimer or something?

steve