🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jul30.161612.10581@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Melinda Shore) writes:
>In article <9107300638.AA11696@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>>Do you know of any women that are offended with a comment like
>>"bright-eyed and pretty?"  Is it an attempt to dominate the recipient?

Yes, actually, it does:  it lessens the recipient in the eyes of many,
including herself.  To be precise, in the fragment, "The bright-eyed and pretty
<whomever>...," the phrase, "bright-eyed and pretty" draws the reader's
attention away from any other qualifications of the person being so
described.

Would *you* like to be described, in a memo from your boss to his/her boss,
as "the slim and cute David Camp"?

>In
>fact, when I was leading a group at one of the national supercomputer
>centers, one of the operators commented on how great it was to have
>all these "pretty girls" around (there were several women in my group).
>One of the women in the group asked me to talk with them about the
>inappropriateness of the comment.  

*shudder*  A disgusting habit.  *sigh*

Incidently, this doesn't belong in gnu.misc.discuss.  How about taking it
to, oh, misc.jobs.misc.  Mayby morphy can start ranting again.

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