Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!pooh From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Wendy P. Nather) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Manipulations of MOTOS Message-ID: <2212@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 10:56:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2212 Posted: Wed Jun 6 10:56:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:05:45 EDT References: <87@tekred.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 19 No, Rich, you quoted me correctly. Although I'm not sure I agree with all your reasons why I am more comfortable with MOTOS as friends. 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. (The few men who have felt as though they needed to compete with me ended up trying to compete with the rest of life, and came out looking pretty sorry. If you have to one-better every living creature, you're in sad shape.) 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. Wendy ["I want to join a one-man band, but I can't find a band that wants me."]