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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: More women than men
Message-ID: <1034@ames.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:59:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 12:59:16 1985
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Whaddaya know, a disagreement I can settle!

From Moira Mallison (tektronix!moiram):
>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.
>>
>>The situation hasn't changed much: men still do the majority of the
>>initial asking and still take the initial risk of being turned down.
>>Women still can get more dates than they can handle.  I'm talking
>>quantity here, not quality, so no flames, okay?
>
>Well, Ross, this isn't MY experience  (except at a few computer conferences
>:-).
>
>Essentially, as we get older, there are FEWER men "available" for partnering
>for a variety of sociological and biological reasons.  More female babies
>were born, a higher childhood mortality rate for males, and a shorter life
>expectancy for males in general are cited as the major biological reasons
>(and they call US the weaker sex?).  The sociological reasons have to do
>with girl-children being socialized to "marry up", combined with women
>(particularly we baby-boomers) doing well in our own right, 
>making "up" even higher, and therefore, decreasing further the number of
>"available men".

	After long experience at bachelorhood, and conversations with
many single women, I can conclusively report that there is a shortage
of single women *and* single men after about the age of 30. *All* of
my bachelor friends of both sexes are unanimous in reporting a lack of
interesting, eligible MOTOS.
	This may seem paradoxical, but us mystics enjoy a good paradox.

"What do you think of Western Civilization?"    Kenn Barry
"That would be nice."                           NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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