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From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judith McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re:  Re:  Manipulations of MOTOS
Message-ID: <1075@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 12:46:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 12:46:32 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jun-84 01:40:54 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Wow. It never ceases to amaze me when social things that I have come to
take for granted are totally thrown over. Wendy Nather said:

	>Going back to the "rival" syndrome among
	>a large number of women, I found that I have been more readily
	>accepted as myself by men.  I found myself holding back, playing
	>dumb among women so as not to earn their resentment--but men
	>in general don't try to compete with me, so I can be as sharp,
	>literate and/or bitchy {:-) as I please.  
	>....
	>I can also tell raunchier jokes among men!  Sometimes it's easier
	>to be "one of the guys" than having to be demure all the time.

Is there THAT much difference between parts of Canada/America??
I could have said EXACTLY the same thing had I substituted the word WOMEN
for MEN and MEN for WOMEN. Actually, sometime during first year university, I
stopped toning down my intellect (and my cursing) in deference to men. It
turned out that I finally found men I could respect when I stopped treating
them with kid gloves. Is there a lesson there?

		--Judy McMullan
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