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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: signing letters
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 15:26:15 EST
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From wxlvax!smk (Simon Kao):

> Here's something I haven't seen discussed after a year reading net.singles.
> Many women, when signing letters, use the format: love, so-and-so. This seems
> to be the prefered way of signing even to casual acquaintances, at least for
> some women. Men, on the other hand, seem hardly ever to sign as such. Why is
> this? Is it that tried and true reason: societal pressures don't allow men the
> freedom to express themselves? Or is it something else? And, does how one
> signs mean anything, or does it really matter? 

The heck with societal pressures.  It's my own internal pressures that make
it difficult for me to sign a letter "love".  (Whether this is true for the
majority of men or not, I don't know; I suspect that by the time American males
are men, it's not so much presently felt pressure as past pressure translated
into conditioning that keeps them from expressing themselves healthfully and
honestly.)  But that's not the whole story.  If I'm going to use the word
"love" in any context, including the close of a letter, I'd bloody well better
mean it.

Any comments from other netters?  I hate to see an article raising a point
from an interesting new direction go unanswered.

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-- Jeff Sargent
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