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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.motss
Subject: Re: Miss America Update
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Date: Sun, 29-Jul-84 13:10:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 29 13:10:15 1984
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I think most of us agree that both Penthouse and the Miss America
Pageant are in the business of exploiting women.  So the question
is, was Vanessa Williams the innocent victim of this exploitation,
or did she take advantage of it to achieve fame and fortune?

"Isn't it terrible what they did to poor Vanessa Williams?"  Maybe,
maybe not.  Remember, she chose to be part of an exploitive system.

Maybe she was used, and deserves our sympathy.  But what she did
was still stupid, as several people have pointed out.

Maybe she knowingly used a corrupt system to get what she wanted.
In this case, she would be no better than the publishers and the
promoters who used her.

-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories