Re: [pyrnet] Re: Bathing

[Old4fun@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/10/00 11:54:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
JGentzel@aol.com writes:

> I guess this is fairly old and in my opinion an Anglo pseudo superior smug 
>  view that got started somewhere.  Before anyone thinks that there truly is 
a 
>  difference, I would invite them to go with me to the "Sale Barns" some 
>  Saturday morning here in rural Georgia.   As we walk through the crowd, 
you 
>  can testify that the French have no exclusive franchise on bathing 
practices  or lack there of. 

First...Diana said the initial comment in a joking ...even LOL ...manner.

But since it was taken seriously....   I'll just say I lived in Europe for 7 
years and now live in rural Georgia and own one of those "Sale Barns" 
referenced above.  Different cultures have different grooming habits.  Just 
as our less bathed Pyrs stink a little, women who choose not to shave their 
armpits and/or don't feel deodorant is necessary smell a little more 
"natural" than women who's culture and commercialism practically "requires" 
shaving and anti-perspirant.  It is not an Anglo-superior-smug-myth... it's a 
simple cultural difference.

Sherry