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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (JB)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: This, that, and the other thing.
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 19:33:52 EST
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["Love is a nose, so ya better not pick it." ...or something like that]

In article <659@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes:
>Fine, there's a certain percentage of men who are inconsiderate,
>insensitive boors. So what? What percentage of the men on the beach
>approached this woman? What percentage of men on the beach would have
>the decency to respond appropriately to the woman's request? Are you
>implying SOME men act this way or MOST men act this way?

If only one percent of men act this way, that means EVERY time a woman
goes to a beach where there are more than 100 men, she can expect to
be bothered.  Now you tell me: what percentage of the men on the beach
do you think were repeatedly interrupted by people who refused to
accept that their intrusion was unwelcome?  The point is that it's an
annoyance that *many* women have to deal with *because* they're women.
(Although I hear rumors that it happens on male homosexual beaches as
well.  Apparently a much higher percentage of men behave like this
than women; and again, if only one percent of men act this way, ....)
-- 

--JB         (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

"I once heard the remainder of a colony of ants, which had been partially
 obliterated by a cow's foot, seriously discussing the intentions of the
 gods towards their civilization."   -- Archy the Cockroach