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<div>At 12:33 PM -0300 7/19/05, borba.rodrigo wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear menbers,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>this week I'm working with my English
students on stereotypes of women and men in society. My objective
with this is to make them aware of stereotyped views of gender in
society and make them aware of this fact and help them develop a
critical position towards the subject. To accomplish this, I've been
collecting newspaper articles and publicity ads. However, I realised
that the question of stereotypes has been posted to the igala list
some months ago. If I'm not mistaken, it was a message about some
kind of fruit peeler whose instructions involved stereotyped views of
women as housewives and the like. Does anyone still have this
message? Unfortunately I can't remember who posted it at first. If
anyone still has it, would you please sent it to me?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>thanks a lot</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Rodrigo</blockquote>
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<div>Here it is; it was a juicer, not a peeler.</div>
<div>Larry</div>
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<div>On Apr 6, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Lucy Horder wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">Dear List
members,</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> Recently, I
decided to buy a juicer. According to the literature, juicers are a
great way to fit in your RDA of 5 portions of fruit and veg if you're
like me and don't really enjoy eating fruit.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> The juicer I
ended up buying included a leaflet that gave some tips on healthy
eating, as well as a few recipes and ideas. I was stunned by the
inclusion of the following paragraphs in this
guidance:</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> "The
average woman - say someone who weighs 10 and a half stone - uses in
an average day around 2000-2200 calories. Of those calories,
1400-1500 will be burned by her body performing its everyday bodily
activities - heart pumping, tissue renewing, general maintenance and
functions.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> A mere
600-700 calories will be burned by her preparing and taking the
children to school, going to work all day, cooking tea for her
children and dinner for her husband, followed by perhaps an hours
ironing!"</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> No mention is
made, incidentally, of men who might wish to eat more healthily, and
the kinds of activities that they might engage in to help them burn
off calories (although perhaps that's for the
best...)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> I have
written to the manufacturers and protest heavily at the inclusion of
this statement in their leaflet, but, unsurprisingly, have not yet
had a reply. I'd be interested to hear some comments from you all if
you are as alarmed by this whole episode as I am.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> Yours
(fuming),</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"> Lucy</font>
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