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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:35:43 GMT
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- intensit@netlink.cts.com (Michael J. Callahan) writes:
-
- >levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >> Let me also point out that there are certain parts of the country in
- >> which an older woman is essentially unmarriageable, unless she has
- >> an extremely valued physical appearance. I base this conclusion on
- >> knowing, in two such geographical areas, middle-aged women who are
- >> handsome (although not *standardly* beautiful), personable,
- >> socially skilled, intelligent, well-groomed (all these good things) --
- >> and yet appear to have resigned themselves, unwillingly, to singleness.
- >>
- >> (To paraphrase Horace Greeley, go West... :-) )
-
- > Excuse me. Could you please tell me where?
-
- The "go West" is instructions to the *woman*. The sections of the
- country I were talking about were New York City and the Midwest.
- Here in the Midwest (where I have fortunately or unfortunately
- been living for the past four years) it seems that middle-aged
- women who are a size 20 don't date -- whatever else they have
- going for them. (This was very definitely not the case in the Silicon
- Valley.)
-