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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: "Regard"ing Harassment
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 11:17:51 EST
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> In a previous article, Adrienne Regard hypothesizes...
> > Guy[1,2,3]:  (Politely) Nice day.  Is that a good book?
> > Gal:  (Also politely) Yes, but I'm not interested in conversation about it.
> > Guy[1,2,3]:  Well, shit, I just made a comment.  Who the hell do you think..
> 
> ...and concludes:
> > She tried to refuse contact as pleasantly as possible, but she got flack...
> 
> I disagree that this Gal was being polite or as pleasant as possible.
> I think she ASSUMED the guy(s) were going to harass her.
> She could have said "yes, it's an ok book." and resumed reading or whatever.
> Most guys would pick up on this, and move on.

	But isn't that what basically happened in the real incident ? And
the guys didn't go away. In fact, a couple of them were pretty obnoxious.
You're using a nice double-standard here, and once again women are damned
if they do and damned if they don't.
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jcpatilla
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