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DATING DON'TS AND DON'TS (fwd)      
A Handy Checklist for the Politically Correct 90s      

Here, just in time for spring, is a list of things that are now against 
the rules, according to the the sex-and-dating police.  Read -- and 
memorize -- this information to avoid lawsuits, dismissal from work, 
expulsion from school -- or worse!      

LIP-LICKING, TEETH-LICKING, AND PROVOCATIVE EATING.  All these (and  
more) are on a list of "unacceptable gestures and behaviors" distributed 
at the University of Maryland at College Park.      

STANDING TOO CLOSE.  Standing too close is one of a long list of 
"sexually harassing behaviors" that Susan Strauss and Pamela Espeland 
caution us "have been reported in U.S. high schools."  (Others are MAKING 
"VERBAL COMMENTS ABOUT CLOTHING" and "WEARING AN OBSCENE HAT.")      

ATTENDING PERFORMANCES OF "ROMEO AND JULIET."  London school official 
Jane Hardman-Brown refused to take her students to see "Romeo and Juliet" 
on the grounds that it was a "blatantly heterosexual love story."  (It's 
not clear whether Hardman-Brown wants the play rewritten to celebrate 
alternative lifestyles, or would prefer to have it banned 
altogether.)      

EXCESSIVE EYE-CONTACT.  University of Toronto chemistry 
professor Richard Hummel was recently prosecuted for "prolonged staring" 
at a female student.      

INSUFFICIENT EYE-CONTACT.  A handbook published 
at Barnard College in New York warns male professors who fail to make 
sufficient eye-contact with their female students that their conduct is 
"contributing to a biased atmosphere in the classroom" which may cause 
women to "feel discouraged and/or physically threatened."      

RECEPTIVE NONINITIATION.  If a woman makes a pass at her male boss, and 
her boss responds, he (not she) is guilty of sexual harassment, according 
to Hunter College professor Sue Rosenberg Zalk.  Zalk's term for this 
underpublicized offense: "receptive noninitiation."      

FORGETTING A WOMAN'S NAME. A report issued by a committee at the 
University of Pennsylvania lists "women's names not remembered" as a 
pernicious form of sexual discrimination.      

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION.  The Minnesota Department of Education 
discourages "displays of affection in hallways" on the grounds that such 
displays "may offend others" and are "heterosexist."      

HAMBURGERS.  Jeremy Rifkin, author of Beyond Beef, notes that "the 
statistics linking  domestic violence and quarrels over beef are both 
revealing and compelling."      

SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR.  And finally this, from Robin Morgan, former 
editor of Ms.:  If a man's "self-deprecating humor" leads a woman to 
initiate sex with him, then that man is -- in a "radical feminist" sense 
of the term -- guilty of assault.    -- Source: The Official Sexually 
Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.  


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