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Politically correct dating
For your education:)
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Excerpts from The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating
Guide by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.
Date: 26 Mar 1995 18:12:04 -0500
From: [email protected] (AmGenSoc)
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.
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