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Dating Do's and Don'ts: A Handy Checklist for the
DATING DON'TS AND DON'TS
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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