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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women
Subject: Re: The latest in Playboy controversies
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 20:09:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 20:09:52 1986
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In article <7428@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>>[Feminist complains about Playboy in reading room, residents
>>of dorm retaliates by hanging foldouts (male and female) on
>>walls, etc.  Feminist threatens to sue.]
> 
>Well, if she lived there, she'd have a legitimate complaint,

Would she?

>but since
>she doesn't, it's none of her damn business what other people choose
>to read in their own homes.

Does she have the right to tell others in a dorm what they can
read, even *if* she also lives there?  I'm not talking about the
hanging of nude pictures, that was a childish reaction to a childish
action.  (Although it's arguable that they had the right.)  But does
one person have the right to censor other people's reading material
in a communal living arrangement?  What if I decided that I was
offending by the presence of religious material in the common room?


			Ron
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