On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> Frankly, I find talk about the quality of some dude's butt just as
> offensive as the talk about some woman's breasts.
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> What about a "person makes them cute if it is not their body and bearing?
> It is hard to see personaltiy from across the room...(as someone said
> previously). Why is it sexist for a man to say that a woman has a nice body
> or a woman to say that a man has a nice butt?
I said I found it *offensive*. This doesn't mean it's necessarily sexist.
Screaming at the dinner table is offensive but needn't be sexist.
And if a guy has a gorgeous body but is a slimeball, sorry, he's NOT
attractive to me. There's a guy I know, for example, who is reasonably
good-looking on physical standards alone. But I can't look at him without
seeing "sleazebag." There's another guy who I think is a total doll. He
may or may not be better-looking in an objective sense, but he sure wins
hands down as being "cute." For the record, I have no idea what EITHER of
their butts look like -- I simply am not in the habit of noticing these
things unless I'm already attracted to someone. And, being monogamous, I
have my hands full already.
> By the way....the act of being "politically correct" is speaking in such a
> manner as to be sure that you do not run the risk of offending anybody.
I'm just saying that X offends *me*. I think it's tacky and tasteless. I
don't think people have to behave like white trash in order to not be PC.
> This has become a major problem (IMHO) in the US. And it WILL lead to the
> downfall of our society (once again...IMHO).
I disagree that a tendency to be PC will -- mandated PCness otoh, may well
be.
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