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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Forward Women not all they're cracked up to be?
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 23:07:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 23:07:38 1984
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>> While I'm in the process of getting over a breakup with a `Forward
>> Woman,' I thought I'd post this note for those of you who are as naive
>> as I was.

>> Some `Forward Women' seem that way only because they're out to see how
>> many concurrent notches they can make on their lipstick cases (thanks,
>> Pat Bennatar(sp?)).  I didn't realize this in general, and wasn't aware
>> of it in this specific case for several reasons (too boring to go into
>> here, but they also raise questions of honesty and trust).

>> Would some of you out in netland like to respond to this accusation?

>> 	Looking for an SO again,
>> -- 
>> 	Marty Shannon

I don't think the plaintiff has a case here.  First off, some `forward
men' act the same way (even down to the lipstick cases :-), so it's
clearly not a gender-linked (nor gender-limited) offense, though the art
of "two-timing" is much more traditionally male.

Indeed, Dorothy Dinnerstein, in "The Mermaid and the Minotaur--Sexual
Arrangements and Human Malaise", quotes a folk rhyme:

	    Higamous hogamous, woman's monogamous.
	    Hogamous higamous, man is polygamous.

So Marty, who do you meet and where?  Maybe you are projecting
the kind of image that attracts life in the fast lane.
-- 
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