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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 13:23:35 1985
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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
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