Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan 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 Article-I.D.: wateng.1075 Posted: Thu Jun 7 12:46:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jun-84 01:40:54 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 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 ...!{ihnp4|clyde|decvax}!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan