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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>Long before the term "PC" or the entire concept of "politically correctness"
>was in vogue, there were people who were bothered by the double standard
>which, for example, prompts journalists who are covering political events of
>various sorts to describe in detail the clothes and appearance of all female
>attendees, while not saying word one about the appearance of the males.
>
>I do not doubt that Ron did not mean anything untoward by his description of
>the clerk as "young" and "attractive."  I *do*, however, doubt that he would
>have described a male clerk as "attractive," simply because I doubt that such
>a description would come naturally to him in the case of males, as it appears
>to come naturally to so many men when females are involved.

Yes, but if a female had posted the description of the experience at the
Registry, and had casually mentioned a cute male Registry cop, would *she*
have been jumped on for mentioning it?  I doubt it.

Double standards indeed.

-Tom