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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: where/how to meet NON-techies?
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 09:38:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 09:38:54 1985
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> The question of "how to meet techies (MOTAS in a technical field)"
> seems a trifle silly ... how many netnews readers are NOT employed at
> (or going to school at, or associated in some other way with) a
> technical organization?  That organization (plus netnews) is a great
> place to meet MOTAS in a technical field.  So, the problem is, ...

Forgive me for making a seemingly chauvinistic comment, but before I even
got to the end of the article and saw your name, I knew that this was being
written by a woman.

I recall how, when I was in college, I had always been acutely aware of how
difficult it was to meet MOTOS.  This was something all the male-type
people complained about vehemently.  However, shortly after I graduated, I
was talking to one of my former fellow-students, a MOTOS who I DID
eventually meet, who was telling me how disappointing it was to be out in
the real world, where men were so relatively scarce; and how she looked
back on her time in college as "a time of love and attention".

This was because, at this college, the male:female ratio was 2:1.  A similar
situation exists in most technical organizations.  Here where I work, for
example, there are no unmarried women at all!  In fact, this was also true
in the CS dept. when I was in graduate school.   I would suspect it is also
true where you are, although this "Indian Hill" seems to be a big place,
and thus you have a larger sample from which to derive your actual ratio.
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