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- From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Subject: Re: Financial first-date negotiations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.000021.14160@cs.ucla.edu>
- Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu
- Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet)
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- Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Organization: in your face!
- References: <1992Dec21.164644.1059@walter.bellcore.com> <102842@netnews.upenn.edu> <102845@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:00:21 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <102845@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >Well, I asked around a little bit this weekend on this topic, and
- >wasn't able to uncover a single opinion like the ones I'm hearing in
- >this group. Most people I talked to -- male and female -- expressed
- >some degree of amazement, confirming my theory that this is a
- >cross-planetary discussion.
-
- Perhaps this is because some of us, instead of accepting traditional
- roles, have chosen to question those roles and define roles for
- ourselves more to our liking.
-
- >Either that, or it's a generation gap (the people I talked with were all
- >in their late 20s, early 30s; I suspect some of the folks who've responded
- >to this thread are a bit younger and possibly still in school).
-
- I suspect not.
-
- >At any rate, it's been enlightening. The main point I've gotten out of it
- >is that Keith, Greg and Ray should hook up with Pooh and Teri. Me, I'm
- >happy with my anachronistic old Martian of a sweetie.
-
- I'm happy that you're happy.
-
- I thought from postings of yours in other newsgroups that you might
- be more sensitive to some of these issues.
-
-