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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: sci.psychology,soc.women,soc.men,soc.culture.usa
- Subject: Re: More Women Than Men Prefer to be Alone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.135807.5707@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:58:07 EST
- References: <11NOV199209183504@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1e1ce3INN4sg@news.aero.org> <1992Nov19.043014.8806@nntp.hut.fi>
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- In article <1992Nov19.043014.8806@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
- > In article <Bxtq3F.EGu@encore.com>, aaldrich@encore (Al Aldrich) writes:
- >>> One in two Japanese wives would rather be home alone
- >>> than with her husband, according to a study. Only 21
- >>> percent of husbands would rather be without their wives.
- >>
- >>I don't find this very surprising. If I was a Japanese wife in a culture
- >>where the wife's social status on average is a little higher than the
- >>family dog and is expected to wait on hubby, hand and foot, from dusk
- >>til dawn, I would rather be alone as well. It is also not surprising
- >>that the 79% of the men would rather have their `maids' around ,
- >>then not.
- >
- > For some reason I think your comment tells more about USA than Japan.
-
- Jyrki, get a punching bag, put a map of the US on it, and work out your
- problems on that instead of polluting the net, ok?
-
- Brett
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