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- From: "amy lynn young-leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.114555.5617@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <1k1bvcINNcs5@gap.caltech.edu> <728126951.23940@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:45:50 -0500
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- >Michal Leah Peri (peri@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
- >: > Just because someone is available for dating doesn't mean they are a jerk.
- >:
- >: Certainly not. However, past a certain age (say, two standard deviations
- >: above the mean age of marriage), one would be wise to consider *why* a
- >: certain person is "available for dating". There may be a really good
- >: reason (eg, one of the sweetest people I know was widowed at the age of
- >: 25). Or they may be a jerk. Let the datee beware.
-
- Oh puh-lease.
-
- Marriage is not something that naturally happens at a certain time in
- life, and to not have it happen is a deviation that means you're sick
- or something. Yeesh. Many people simply have more to do than get
- married. Or they've been married to people who couldn't handle
- relationships well. Or they're widowed, as you pointed out. They are
- just as likely to just have had better things to do as they are to be
- somehow inept at personal relationships.
-
- amy
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- alyoung@kiwi.indiana.edu Occupation: Lifetime Student
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