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Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:51:13 -0500 |
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Mary Ellin D'Agostion wrote the following in response to my inquiry about
her hesitancy to discuss her privy research"
>Well, the iniitial responses I've gotten from people have not been
particularly >encouraging-- after the initial "eew, yucky' reaction, I get
asked 'have you thought >of _______?' (Fill in the blank with some very
basic consideration).
Well, well, well . . . . thin skinned aren't we! Hey, those " very
basic considerations" are just the efforts of well intended but not well
informed people trying to help. If that the worse thing that happens to
you, you are a lucky, lucky person. As for the "eew, yucky." reactions, be
grateful. I wrote my thesis on stylistic variation in "Pin-up Art" and
what it told us about the American Male and archaeological theory. (You
know Vargas Girls, Betty Grable, etc. ). I would have traded a "eew,
yucky" anyday for the sexual fantasies I had to listen to! "Eew, yucky
does begin to describe the stuff people thought I'd be interested in just
because I chose to study this piece of "Americana." So count your
blessings. Ha!
LInda Derry [log in to unmask]
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