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- From: roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Just this guy)
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- References: <C17tnI.I73@panix.com> <1993Jan23.054955.17246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1jstv4INNl7l@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan26.040900.20453@microsoft.com>
- Sender: roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Roar Foshaug)
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:15:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.161503.10742@news.uit.no>
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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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- Meaning that if you meat a nice guy who you like and who is free
- you automatically decide "there must be something wrong with
- this guy"...
-
- |> -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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- Roar Foshaug (roarf@stud.cs.uit.no)
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Tromsoe, IMR 'oe' is '\o{}' in Tex
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