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- From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
- Subject: Re: Take up a hobby, instead
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:32:09 GMT
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- Elaine Richards writes:
-
- >"I am a nice guy. I don't have a girlfriend. He has a girlfriend. I seethe
- >with jealousy, hate his guts and think he`s a jerk. Ergo. Guys with
- >girlfriends are jerks."
-
- >Peeve: Bad reasoning.
-
- Yeah, that is bad reasoning. But I don't think the above example is all
- that common. Good Ghod, I certainly don't think all guys with girlfriends
- are jerks! The guys I considered jerks were the ones who were either beating
- up their girlfriend or the ones who were having a booze party at home while
- she was working 8-10 hours a day.
-
-
- >Peeve: Some very nice men are shy. They don't ask women out because
- >they are shy. Then they wonder why they don't have girlfriends.
-
- True. Shy or socially inept. These days, there are probably a lot of
- those types out there.
-
-
- >Peeve: Some very boorish men are so insistent that you either have
- >to club them with a MagLite or go out with them and act like a total
- >dweeb to get them off your case.
-
- That type probably turns into a stalker. Fortunately, the law is becoming
- much more serious about this. The police nailed one guy just last week for
- doing that.
-
-
- >Women care a lot more about how their partners behave than men do.
- >Men don't want to think about it, as long as they "get some".
-
- Are you saying that a woman cares more about how a man treats her in a
- relationship than a man would care how he's being treated as long as he
- is getting sex? That would be a pretty shallow guy - in fact, I'd classify
- him as one of the above jerks. The whole purpose of the book that Bill
- mentioned was precisely that: men care how they're treated. This stuff
- about men just concerned about getting sex is poodlesnot. Hell, on my
- list of concerns, my concern about "getting some" ranks even below my
- concern about why Geoff Miller voted for Clinton.
-
- -Dave
-