mwolf@yale-com.UUCP (Anne G. Wolf) (09/17/83)
I notice a lot of articles from people who don't like to shave.
Nor do I, and I have every sympathy for people who don't want to.
However, if you choose to shave, there are a couple of things that
make it less dangerous.
Most of the women that I know well enough to ask about this
use either soap or nothing to lubricate their razor.
Shaving-cream works very much better for this. (I have yet
to understood why advertizers only try to sell shaving cream
to men.) I have not found that any specific brand works
better than the others for preventing cuts, but the smells
differ, and people with allergies may tolerate some brands better.
Also, one gets fewer cuts if one shaves in the same direction
that the hair grows.
Nothing is obvious until it's obvious,
Mary-Anne Wolf (decvax!yale-comix!mwolf)nessus@nsc.UUCP@tekecs.UUCP (nessus@nsc.UUCP) (10/03/83)
Re: recent articles in these newsgroups{shaving legs, long hair, women
in computing}
1. I don't shave my legs. There have been many articles about how
**AWFUL** unshaven legs are under nylons. My solution:
I wear tights. I can find them in almost any color to go with
anything I wear. They are much thicker than nylons, therefore warmer.
I buy the really thick kind[like Danskin(tm)], that one associates with
dancers and such. After my friends got used to me wearing them, they
gave me no hassles. Also, tights don't run as easily as nylons. I had
a pair for a year, and the only reason they ran was because I scraped
my foot brushing against a cement wall. I wouldn't touch the stuff
palmed off as "opaqe panty hose"; you can still see through them more
easily than through my car windows...
However, they[and nylons] have the annoying habit of sticking to my
dresses/skirts/pants. Does anyone know how to cure this problem? It
cannot be insurmountable, because I have seen other women walking around
that don't have this problem. If I wear a slip, the slip sticks, and
I'm back where I started. Can anyone advise me by mail?
Any men that have {constructive} advice will not have their names
announced to the net[:-)]. Also I have had luck with a silk slip, at
least with Danskin[(tm)] skirts, but silk slips are too expensive for my
budget.
2. I wear my hair moderately long[middle of my back], frequently tied back
pony-tail style. People say this looks good on me, and it is easy to
implement. All it requires is a brushing-out[ghastly/painful process]
in the morning. Have you ever gone done the freeway with windows open,
then tried[!] to brush long hair out? That is almost an excuse in
itself for cutting my hair, but I enjoy having long hair too much.
3. I am into hardware. Repairing/debugging prototypes is my primary job.
My TI99/4A is going to get 8-inch floppies, {parallel port for}TRS-80
printer/plotter, 128K RAM and more in the near future. All of these
things I am having to build myself because my computer budget is =<0.
Also, I think TI has braindamaged some of their peripherals from a
hardware point of view. Mind you this is the point of view of the
author, not the author's employer, and is expressed as a personal
opinion not to be construed as slander/libel/etc.
I realize that #3 does not relate to CS, but I just wanted to include myself.
Paranoidally yours,
Kchula-Rrit
I was given this address: !menlo70!nsc!nessus
or: !fortune!nsc!nessus