Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!chrism
From: chrism@shark.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Intelligent and single women
Message-ID: <795@shark.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 01:25:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: shark.795
Posted: Mon Jun 11 01:25:36 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:12:28 EDT
Sender: chrism@shark.UUCP
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
Lines: 32



Speaks the wombat:
>Mary Ann, I think the "woman must be less intelligent than man"
>stereotype is pure (as Joe Bob would say) bullstuff.  I have a hard time 
>even dating anyone who "can't keep up"...I tend to prefer women who are at 
>the same level (or higher) than I am...I would hope most men feel this way.

Actually, my experience is that most men DON'T feel this way, even
when they are fairly "liberated" in other respects.  As for myself, I agree
with the wombat;  nothing is more boring than a date who intellectually 
is not your rough equivalent or better.  (Unless you're looking for a simple
pick-up, in which case intelligence is not necessarily a deciding factor).

Now that this has been brought up, one of my biggest gripes is the lack of
single, intelligent women in the engineering world.  Much social life is
necessarily work-oriented, and when it comes to sex-ratios, engineering
has got to be one of the last bastions of overwhelming male numbers.
(I should have listened to my parents and become a lawyer....).
There just aren't that many women in the field, and thus few opportunities
for a relationship.  You can only date so many secretaries, you know. 

A real discouraging business.  I think I'll call up Jeff Sargent and
seek religious counseling.


Chris Minson

(P.S.  But I think I have a solution.  Yes, I really do.  Regretably, I
am not going to tell you what it is.)