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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Male Men Bashers
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:49:13 GMT
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- Eric Pepke (pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
- : Check followups.
- :
- : In article <1993Jan17.014306.7372@adobe.com> kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall) writes:
- : >OK. Let's define what "nice, sensitive guy" means...
- : >
- : >I am a woman and I wanted a "nice, sensitive guy". I've dated self-centered
- : >jerks and as I matured and came to care more about my own "quality of life"
- : >(yep - it's, arghhh, SELF-ESTEEM!), I quit seeing the self-centered jerks
- : >as better-than-me-and-therefore-desirable, and saw them as self-centered
- : >jerks not worth wasting my time on.
- :
- : Thanks for saying this. It is consistent with my experience.
- :
- : The reason I set the followups the way I did is that I want to talk about
- : the message that men get. The message is this:
- :
- : 1) If you're a self-centered jerk, you'll get plenty of dates.
- : 2) It you're a nice, sensitive guy, you may at some time acquire a long-term
- : partner who may or may not stop dating self-centered jerks. In the mean
- : time, you might as well watch Popeye cartoons to see what your forearms
- : are going to look like.
- An assumption here that everone wants a long term partner..
- :
- : This is generally called the "nice guy syndrome."
- :
- : -EMP
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