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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162337.16405@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan23.054955.17246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1jstv4INNl7l@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan26.040900.20453@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:23:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.040900.20453@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
- >peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >>
- >>>That's both a good point and a particularly good way of putting it--I'd
- >>>suggest that it goes even a little further than that, since most "jerks"
- >>>never actually go out of circulation [...]
- >>
- >>Such a good point I thought I'd paraphrase it. The "nice guys"
- >>get happily married and go out of circulation. The "jerks" are still
- >>out there dating.
- >
- >Or as one of the [few] women I work with put it....
- >
- > my women friends think that working at microsoft would be great...
- > men, men, men...and the men/woman ratio [we're in MS-DOS/Windows]
- > is good. But...the intersection of the set of men who are desirable
- > [in terms of personality, interests, etc] with the set of men who
- > are available is usually null.
- >
- > Or, if a man is available...it's usually for cause.
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- Jen, about your "women friends", are they available "for cause" as well?
- Would it not be equally valid to assume that there is something wrong
- with most of the available females? Oh, I forgot, you can blame the ex
- (the male ex, the female ex is no doubt a victim). When will I learn???
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- >-jen
- > [of course, if I didn't label all men in my immediate workgroup
- > 'undesirable, it wouldn't be null in my case. but dating someone
- > in my immediate group might induce insanity. oh well....]
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- Rich
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