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To: Ilaine who wrote (63816)	11/22/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 108807

Oh absolutely I believe that there are different criteria for men and women--- grey hair being an excellent example. I think I was trying to point out that whatever those criteria are, they still place a person under pressure to be something else. They place the emphasis on a characteristic of a person that is truly meaningless, and even contrary, to their ability to do a job, or to be a good companion, or a good person. I agree with Michael about the anorexic females, but I just think that to limit that to some failure of the women's movement is inaccurate. I believe it is a problem for everyone today. Look at the Calvin Klein commercials! ALL the models- male and female- are asexual. Or unisexual. The teenage boy taking steroids or trying to pump up is no different from the girl sticking her finger down her throat. THese are the extremes of what happens when people buy into these expectations. But just how do they connect with the Women's Movement, which is I think, what was implied in that article. I see it as a societal problem, affecting everyone of us. Then too, every generation has had its strange expectations, its own ideas of beauty, of proper behavior. THAT is an interesting question about what gives an older woman that credibility, that "gravitas" (i like that) At first thought, the women who sprang to mind were the ones who seem perfectly comfortable as women, but who don't feel a need to be accepted by men as SEXUAL. They are definitely female and don't try to be men. They LIKE being female. Although there is a woman in our church with the most gorgeous silver hair and she has tremendous gravitas.