Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alan From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.motss Subject: Re: Miss America Update Message-ID: <2651@allegra.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jul-84 13:10:15 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2651 Posted: Sun Jul 29 13:10:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:11:39 EDT References: <3861@fortune.UUCP>, <1855@randvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 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