Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Swans and Ducks Message-ID: <836@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:13:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.836 Posted: Fri Jul 12 15:13:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:06:53 EDT References:<519@unc.UUCP> <570@unc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 43 AMBAR > Frank Silbermann >>>> The gorgeous women who don't care much about a man's looks are >>>> not interested in a man who is looking for a gorgeous woman. >>>> Yuval Tamir >>> Sounds like a Catch-22 to me. >>> Frank Silbermann >AMBAR (jeand@ihlpg.UUCP): >> Not really. I suppose it's the old "don't think about polar bears for >> 5 minutes and your wish will come true" game. Worry about personality >> instead of beauty, and I bet you will find that your SO IS beautiful >> --if only to you. But then, you're the only one who cares, right? > > You're just playing games with semantics. You got out of that one only by > using a different meaning for the word "beauty". No, I am not! Ok, so you enjoy looking at an esthetically beautiful woman. Fine. Let me translate what I was saying above in this light: Worry about personality instead of beauty, and I bet you will find that you get that same esthetic charge out of looking at your SO-- even if others do not. But then, you're the only one who cares, since we know that the point of the matter is not to prove that you are 'macho' (or whatever) enough to get a woman that all your hetero- sexual male and lesbian female friends are going to drool over, IS IT? (That last sentence is not intended as a personal attack at anyone. It's just that, when the subject of beauty comes up, that's about the only motive that seems (to me) to fit the attitudes expressed....) > I believe that such deceptive playing with words should be prosecuted > as male fraud (pun intended). > Frank Silbermann Such puns should be prosecuted. ;-} -- AMBAR {the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "To those who love it is given to hear Music too high for the human ear." --Bruce Cockburn