curious wrote:
>
> > Doug Vogt wrote:
> > >
> > > You can certainly be irritated by the attention that Playboy's Playmate
> > > of the Month steals.
> >
> > This line clarified something I specifically wanted to refute.
> >
> > There /appears/ to be an underlying theme in your argument that
> > 'women want to be desirable to men'. It comes across as a subtext,
> > and .. well. If this was intended, this sort of assumption is actually
> > part of the problem. IMO.
>
> To some degree men and women try to make themselves "desirable" to the
> gender they are intrested in... Other then the statement being hetrosexist
> what is wrong with this assumption?
Because it's incorrect, and traditionally the burden of 'desireability'
is on females.
Not everyone tries to make themselves desirable to those they're
sexually interested in; at least, not consciously.
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Susannah D. Rosenberg / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / gravity.dyn.dhs.org
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