Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <283@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 11:19:55 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.283 Posted: Tue Jul 9 11:19:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:24:20 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 63 Keywords: egotism, chauvinism Summary: In article <2582@randvax.UUCP> rohn@rand-unix.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn) writes: >In article <262@timeinc.UUCP> Ross M. Greenberg writes: > >>Regarding the reasons that women tend to sever the relationship more often >>than men: >> >>Women, on the other hand, had more men after them then they could possibly >>handle: generally turning down more dates than they accepted. So breaking >>up from a not-so-perfect relationship did not mean that they were to >>be lonely on friday night. And so breaking up was not such a big deal. > > > >Gosh, I don't know why I never realized all this before. Of course, >we all know women only live for male companionship on a Friday night. >And G*d knows we would never consider breaking off a relationship >unless we were *sure* there was another male waiting right outside the >door. After all, a woman without a man must surely be miserable, >mustn't she? And, of course, breaking off a relationship she has put >a lot of time and emotional energy and love into couldn't possibly be >at all unpleasant if she knows she has another one waiting right >around the corner. > > > Gimme a break, huh? You want to make a claim here that you've never been lonely on a Friday night? Or that you prefer not to be involved with someone? I tend to think that most people prefer to be involved with someone as it (to me at least) is a lot more fun to share one's life with someone else. And I tend to find it to be more comfortable to share my life with a women. Call me sexist, if you wish. And the idea wasn't that there was a man on the other side of the door. But rather that (generally speaking) a man is gonna knock on your door a hellofalot more often than you'll knock on his. And breaking up from a relationship is difficult for all involved, BTW, so get off your ivory tower! >Ross, I really hope there was supposed to be a :-) after the above >paragraph and you just forgot it. I find it difficult (as well as >distressing) to believe that you are *that* insensitive and chauvin- >istic. Believe or not, women *do* live for something besides men. > Nope. I didn't forget. I just figured that the *theory* I stated might be accepted as a possible theory, and that it wouldn't be attacked as if this were some sexist debate. If you feel that makes me "*that* insensitive and chauvinistic", then "Gosh, Mrs. Cleaver, I sure do apologize. I certainly didn't mean to make you think." "That's quite alright, Eddie. I was only looking for something to attack." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{ihnp4 | vax135}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. they would make me their spokesperson.