Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: signing letters Message-ID: <1675@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 15:26:15 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1675 Posted: Tue Jan 15 15:26:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:49:14 EST References: <372@wxlvax.UUCP> Organization: the PIRATE ship Lines: 26 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. -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq Proud owner of two Control Data doorstops.