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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.070605.25511@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <oneil.724571180@cwis> <ljhcokINN580@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <oneil.725163466@cwis>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 07:06:05 GMT
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- In article <oneil.725163466@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
- >falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
- >
- >>In article <oneil.724571180@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
- >>|
- >>|I'm sure that there are plenty of females in the same position. While I
- >>|was in college, I had a lot of very nice, very funny female friends who
- >>|could not for the life of them get a date. They were reasonably attractive
- >>|women as far as societal standards go.
- >
- >>Gee, that's awful. How many and what kind of men were they asking out?
- >
- >Hey! These girls were chasing after guys all over the place. They'd ask
- >classmates to come over and study with them. They'd ask guys to come to
- >dinner in the dorms with them. I think they made themselves quite available
- >for dating. Unfortunately, most of them suffered from Nice Girl (TM) s
- >syndrome, ending up as the "sis" to talk to.
-
- One of the important things to know when flirting shamelessly (in person
- anyway) is that, when you're not serious and just doing it for fun, to
- put in subtle cues that show your lack of intent (this also makes the
- flirting much less threatening if your flirt object would also not be
- willing to let things go beyond recreational flirting). These cues can be
- very subtle and still completely effective.
-
- I've noticed that it's not all that uncommon for some people to emit these
- cues all the time without being aware of it--indeed, for someone who does
- not feel confident about dating situations, it can be a mechanism for
- reducing the feeling of rejection, should it occur. The recipient of this
- attention then picks up on these cues (though not necessarilly being aware
- of them consciously) and thinks, "s/he's a nice girl/guy, but just as a
- friend."
-
- How to determine if this could have anything to do with your friends'
- problems or how this might be addressed, I don't know. Obviously we
- need some sort of class on the subject to teach us how to recognise
- these behaviors and learn to control them.
-
-
- On a slightly related topic, earlier today I was thinking about the
- characteristic of personal "warmth"--that is, the feeling when you are
- near someone that they are "warm and cuddly" or "cold and hard" (or in
- between). At least to me, people vary quite dramatically on this scale,
- but I haven't been able to determine what characteristics go into
- creating this impression--it doesn't appear to be related to appearance
- or anything else obvious to me. Anyone out there in net.land have any
- ideas on the subject?
-
- Trygve
- --
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