Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!dsn From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <266@tove.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:23:35 EDT Article-I.D.: tove.266 Posted: Mon Jul 8 13:23:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:36:00 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 30 In article <548@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > >When I worked in NYC, I'd sometimes hit the singles bars with my >friends after work. At these places, the men at ususally outnumbered >the women by about seven to one. This was also the story at the >"singles" parties I attended. Perhaps women have such a difficult >time meeting men because they WON'T GO OUT! WHAAAT????? Not going to singles bars is a damned sight different from "not going out"! Since I have a girlfriend, I'm currently "not looking", but if I were, a singles bar is about the last place I'd go to. I'm involved in a number of activities that I like to do for their own sake. But interestingly enough, these activities have considerably better boy-to-girl ratios than seven-to-one! > We men can't meet them >if they spend most of their spare time sitting at home with girlfriends >talking about draperies and stuff. > > Frank Silbermann That sounds sexist to me. Most women I know are pretty career-oriented, and are not particularly likely to "spend most of their spare time sitting at home with girlfriends talking about draperies and stuff". -- Dana S. Nau, Computer Science Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 ARPA: dsn@maryland CSNet: dsn@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!dsn Phone: (301) 454-7932