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From: marcia%hpindl8@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (Marcia Bednarcyk)
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Subject: Personal Scandals
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Date: 10 Feb 89 00:47:42 GMT
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The other day on the "Today" show, the guests were discussing the Tower
nomination for Secretary of Defense. One person mentioned that the mere
allegation of "womanizing" would have killed the nomination if Tower were
a woman (would she have been "manizing"?).

This brought to mind the remark made in the last discussion about why women
don't post more which read something like "women tend to worry about their
reputations more than men". I think what was made prefectly clear to me is
that women *have* to, as long as the double standard is still around.

Also along these lines, does anyone know of a woman that has "overcome" a
personal scandal of that sort and still gotten a prestigious post or
something similar? Somehow I doubt it, if something like crying can be used
to help bring Patricia Schroeder's presidential campaign to a screeching halt.

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