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Subject: Re: Feminists ignore Cosmetics?....Why don't you guys get a JOB?
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:10:15 GMT
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In article <26AUG199214230230@tacos.caltech.edu>, gag@tacos.caltech.edu (GUIDO A. GIAMBERARDINO) writes:
> In article <1992Aug25.143622.9395@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
>>In article <1992Aug24.112004.1@mdcbbs.com> rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
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>>>|  Michael Rivero rivero@mdcbbs.com  Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Animator   |
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>>>| In the Middle East, women are raised to always cover their faces with  |
>>>| viels. Modern feminists point to this practice as proof of how these   |
>>>| women are oppressed. Yet here in the Western (so called) Civilized     |
>>>| countries, women are raised to cover their faces with cosmetics, to    |
>>>| the tune of 50 billion dollars a year. In this regard, American women  |
>>>| are just as oppressed as their eastern sisters while having to pay far |
>>>| more for the priviledge. Why do the feminists pay such scant attention |
>>>| to this most visible abuse of women's skin, health, and wallet?        |
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> 
> Are you serious?  Don't you have anything better to do with your time than
> worry about this trivia?  Get a JOB, man.
> 
> 
>>Read some Naomi Wolf sometime.  Or just about any issue of Ms. magazine.
>>Sheesh.
>>-- 
> 
> And YOU!!!  You're another gem.  With all the great books to read in
> the world, you waste your time reading and talking about this
> GARBAGE?  Are you guys for real????   You "feminist men"  REALLY crack me
> up.   The feminist women are annoying, but YOU guys are PATHETIC.
> GET a JOB.  If you can't find a job then worry about why the 
> economy is so bad--not about whether or not makeup oppresses
> women.  Get SERIOUS.
> 

  First of all, I'm most assuredly NOT a feminist.

  Secondly, I have a job, thank you. Like many men in these recessionary times
I have a full time job plus run a small business out of my home.

  As to the economy, consider this. Last year, American women spent
50 billion dollars on beauty products and services, at a time when
their fellow human beings, including other women were sleeping in alleys
and eating out of trashcans (dinner at McDumpster's).  That 50 billion
dollars worth of human labor and raw materials did NOT improve our schools.
It did NOT repair our bridges, nor did it keep our emergancy rooms open.
No products resulted from that 50 billion that can be sold internationally at
a profit. No new industries or jobs were created from the 50 billion dollar 
investment. that 50 billion dollars is gone forever, literally washed down 
the drain.

  Coincidentally, that 50 billion would clean up the mess from the S&L
meltdown, not to mention help clean up the mess we'll have next year
when the main commercial banks start dropping like flies.

  In the years since Reagan first took office, this non productive
expenditure adds up to roughly half a trillion dollars. That's 1/7 of the 
total National Debt right there.

 We spend more on beauty than we spend on Space Exploration, the Environment,
or AIDS Research.

  That SERIOUS enough for you man?



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