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- From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is gold-digging?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:10:05 GMT
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- References: <JULIE.92Dec9135816@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <724066442.19833@minster.york.ac.uk> <101671@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <101671@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >
- >If a man asks me out, and I don't know him very well, I assume he's
- >paying. If he doesn't, he's got no class whatsoever, IMO. ...
- >
- >I imagine it would be different if I asked a man out, but that isn't my
- >style.
-
- Translation: "I don't insist that the man pay for dates, I think that
- whoever does the asking should pay for the dates. Of course, I insist
- that the man do the asking."
-
- Been there, done that, heard it before.
-
-
- >Now that I've been seeing someone for over a year, we rarely do the
- >traditional "date" thing; I'll pay for lunch this time, he'll pay next
- >time, I'll cook, he'll cook, whatever. Occasionally we still do the
- >formal "date," we go somewhere special and he pays. Otherwise, whoever
- >happens to have money at the time pays, or we split it.
- >
- >So, would any guys out there in net.land consider any of this
- >"gold-digging"? I'm honestly not very familiar with the term.
-
- Actually, not. It's one thing to do it the traditional way at first
- when people aren't sure of one another, but as long as the relationship
- winds up in a more equal footing, I have no problem with it.
-
- (Now, if a woman who wants to start out on an equal footing, that's
- a real plus in my mind.)
-
- I once had an SO who, although she made more money than me, and was a
- self-professed feminist, still insisted that I pay for all of our dates
- (and do all the driving, etc.) She was a "gold-digger" in my mind.
-
- Of course there are exceptions. I've gone out with a few starving
- student types in my life, and then I usually pick up the lion's
- share of dating costs.
-
- -ed falk, sun microsystems
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