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- From: kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall)
- Subject: Re: Male Men Bashers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.014406.26497@adobe.com>
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- References: <11788@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <1993Jan21.222612.6430@adobe.com> <1993Jan23.004736.4145@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:44:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.004736.4145@cs.ucla.edu> gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
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- [ old stuff deleted ]
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- >Right. However, I think the media subtly encourages us to find a
- >companion even if we might be otherwise happy without one. The "not
- >having a companion" can lead to dissatisfaction, especially if most of
- >your honest, caring friends have companions. (In other words, "what's
- >wrong with me?") I liked the reasons someone gave in a past post for
- >why people don't form relationships, but I would add to them having no
- >access to or no knowledge of available, compatible, potential partners.
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- Many single-by-choice people will go with friends as "escorts" and
- alleviate some of the single hassles.
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- I have a "fun" theory that the "playboys" of yesteryear, those guys who
- had oodles of women dripping off of them, were actually gay men. Women
- had a fun, safe escort, and they had a cover for being a "confirmed bachelor".
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- >A good % of people I know would make a good partner for someone, but
- >there isn't a compatible someone that they would meet in the general
- >course of their everyday life.
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- It's not always easy, but the answer would then be to step outside
- your everyday life and get involved in something new and interesting
- to you.
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- >
- >--gregbo
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- Janice Kendall kendall@adobe.com ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
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- "Creativity overcomes violence."
- John Bradshaw on "Homecoming"
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