Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxa!carson From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men (shortage for all...) Message-ID: <1018@homxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 08:44:48 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.1018 Posted: Fri Jul 12 08:44:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:26:46 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP> <1105@peora.UUCP> <629@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <262@timeinc.URe: More women than men Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 Two reasons that there's a shortage of "appropriate" MOTAS for those of us over 30: (1) Since a higher percentage ARE married (or equivalent), a lower fraction of the people you casually interact with (at say volleyball or square dancing, as opposed to arranged-for-singles activities) are gonna be unattached....more chaff for the wheat (Note: this is not to say I don't have time to have fun with attached guys -- I do (one benefit being that I often meet nifty women this way), but there is a potential "pay-off" lacking...) (2) People over 30 have had more time to develop "personality" (Eccentricity, like a gas, expands to fit available space...:-) Anyhow, there are all the things like what he wants to eat, what he wants to do for recreation, what sort of house he wants to keep, etc...that are thoroughly enough formed that it takes more effort to figure out how to LIVE together (Marrying at 25 is no guarantee that your habits will evolve similarly -- but at least you have a "target")...Like, what do you do when the most attractive man you've run into lately loves sailing and you just get seasick.... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes...Finley Peter Dunne (aka Mr. Dooley) ----------------------------------------------------------------------