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| 746.1 | inquiring mind wants to know? | VMSSPT::NICHOLS | conferences are like apple barrels | Mon Feb 03 1992 15:56 | 3 |
| What is the woman?
Why does she have a goatee?
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| 746.2 | | LEZAH::BOBBITT | megamorphosis | Mon Feb 03 1992 16:03 | 10 |
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Some women have facial hair, fwiw. It has to do with a high level of
testosterone in her body, I think - and some women have this hormonal
level naturally. Or she could have been a transsexual in transition.
Or it could have been glued on with spirit gum.
It's hard to tell the exact reason why, but those are some options.
-Jody
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| 746.3 | one approach | WMOIS::REINKE_B | seals and mergansers | Mon Feb 03 1992 16:14 | 22 |
| Ken
Well, one thing that you could say is that some women do have facial
hair but they generally remove it (waxes, shaving, electrolysis etc).
Of those women, some of them get tired of the bother (just like some
men stop shaving and grow beards) and let their facial hair grow.
Most women would feel uncomfortable about doing that because of how
society regards facial hair on women (mention how surprised he was).
However, some women make it a matter of pride not to look like what
society says they should look like, but just look like their natural
self. Such women chose not to wear makeup, curl their hair, or
remove facial hair.
One of the nice things about being in the United States is that we
allow people to have the freedom to look and dress in ways that
they feel comfortable.
etc.
Bonnie
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| 746.4 | | STARCH::WHALEN | Vague clouds of electrons tunneling through computer circuits and bouncing off of satelites. | Mon Feb 03 1992 18:41 | 4 |
| .3 is a great way to explain it. It shows that idividualism is allowed and
respected in our society.
Rich
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| 746.5 | | CRONIC::SCHULER | Build a bridge and get over it. | Mon Feb 03 1992 20:27 | 1 |
| I agree. Terrific response, Bonnie.
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| 746.6 | Hi, my name is Lynn ... wanna dance? | HEYYOU::ZARLENGA | more sensitive than a rock | Mon Feb 03 1992 23:49 | 3 |
| Check the adam's apple, that'll tell you if it's a genetic male or
female. You learn to spot the cross-dressers once you do the Boston
nightclub scene on a weekend.
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| 746.7 | | CSC32::GORTMAKER | Whatsa Gort? | Tue Feb 04 1992 03:52 | 5 |
| I knew a woman that had a moustache I never got used to it during
the years I used to see her (security gaurd at a bank).
-j
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| 746.9 | | STRATA::SANTANA | Drop a Load on'em | Tue Feb 04 1992 05:02 | 6 |
| It was probably a man, who's had a sex change... I've seen a few of
them and boy is it hard to tell, sometimes the only way to tell is
the deep voice.... One time this one he/she had the looks of Cindy
Crawford and the legs of Arnold Swartzennager(sp?) and the voice
of james Earl Jones, funny I tell ya.
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| 746.10 | | PINALL::KENNEDY | | Tue Feb 04 1992 06:24 | 11 |
| I saw a woman on the bus here in Seattle and she had a beard on
the underside of her chin and there was alot of hair. A few months after
I saw her she made the news by filing a lawsuit against the YWCA. They
fired her because she refused to shave her beard and underarm hair.
Her appearance caused alot of complaints from the customers. I never
did hear what the outcome of the lawsuit was. But I can understand why
the customers complained, it wasn't just the beard, but her overall
appearance that was quite repulsive. She was unkempt, dirty and her
clothes were awful.
Karen
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| 746.11 | As Maggie Dubois used to say, "Not necessarily." | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | Nanotyrannus - the roadrunner from hell | Tue Feb 04 1992 20:56 | 9 |
| Re: .6
The Adam's apple won't give it away if it's a person undergoing a sex
change. One of the surgical procedures done to make such women more
female in appearance is to trim the Adam's apple. I've seen women I
know used to be physically male, and it wasn't apparent that their
throats had been touched surgically.
-dick
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| 746.12 | Ain't so. | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | Nanotyrannus - the roadrunner from hell | Tue Feb 04 1992 20:59 | 9 |
| Re: .4, re: .3
You're only partially right in praising America's tolerance of
individualism. American society does not yet offer everyone the
opportunity to be himself or herself. When same-sex marriage is
legalized, and when hets stop discriminating agasint gays, then maybe
we could revisit the freedom we havee in the good ol' U. S. of A.
-dick
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| 746.13 | tell him the truth. | CSC32::PITT | | Tue Feb 04 1992 21:04 | 9 |
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re basenote.
Just tell you son that there are ALOT of wierdos out there.....
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| 746.14 | a bit harsh, I think | DELNI::STHILAIRE | You're on your own now, Claire | Wed Feb 05 1992 19:56 | 12 |
| re .13, I don' think that your answer *is* the truth.
Who are you to call a woman a weirdo just because she has facial hair?
I mean, I, personally, my thank whatever gods may be, that I don't have
facial hair, but if some other woman doesn't mind having, it's fine
with me, too.
I'd save the "weirdo" term for mass murderers, cannibals, and such.
Lorna
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