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- From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
- Message-ID: <oneil.725199192@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <oneil.724571180@cwis> <ljhcokINN580@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <oneil.725163466@cwis> <1992Dec24.070605.25511@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:13:12 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Nah. I think that the guys that they were inviting over were jerks because
- they wouldn't have considered these girls for various reasons, including
- the fact that they weren't fashion model lookalikes. They weren't
- unattractive, but they weren't Christie Brinkley either.
-
- >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."
-
- The guys weren't that great looking either, to be honest, but they were
- going to hold out for "something better."
-
- >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.
-
- No. I think tha these guys should have given more of a chance to these
- girls.
-
- I am not sure why I had better luck than my friends. I mean, I think I'm
- attractive, although certainly no more attractive than my friends. Maybe it
- was because I had a lot of comp sci/engineering type male friends.
-
- Sharon
- oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
-