Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!ariels From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: What women want Message-ID: <1667@orca.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:56:10 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1667 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:56:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:26:19 EDT References: <3498@decwrl.UUCP> <509@h-sc1.UUCP> <784@lll-crg.ARPA> Organization: sixes and sevens Lines: 44 > In article <509@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes: > >I'm not disagreeing, Seth (I think lots of people don't know > >what they want!) But I think we can safely say that men don't > >know what women want either. For one thing, women are almost > >certainly not homogeneous in their desires. From what I have > >observed (in myself and others -- this is not a sweeping > >generalization, so if you don't think it applies to you, don't > >flame me!), women always think they want nice men, but for > >some reason, they are attracted to not-so-nice men at first. > >At some point, though, almost every woman gets really sick > >of these shitheads and then (hopefully) she can meet a nice > >guy and get on with her life. It's just that if a nice > >guy meets a woman before she's hit this point, it's probably > >hopeless (again, this is just from my experience, but I've > >seen it happen again and again). > > > >marie desjardins park > > Any idea why the above is true? I tend to agree with the statements ( they > apply to me too ) but I have no idea why this happens. > > Rea Simpson Before this goes too far, I want to say that I've always been initially attracted to "nice" men, and all the women I know except one also seem to hang around/pair up with nice men. I can only think of one instance where the guy I approached was not-so-nice, and I've never even remotely been attracted to a "jerk". I think I can chalk my experience up to my liking for technical types, who in general have never gotten proficient at the "macho male" image. Most of my female aquaintences also seem to end up with intellectuals of one variety or another, and even the non-intellectual men we like are at least readers (but then, we're thinkers and readers, too). Another factor may also be that I'm generally around nice guys, so why search for not-so-nice ones. I've never really seen the "women attracted to not-so-nice men" phenomenon in action, and I have a lot of women friends. So it's not universal. Ariel (nice guys finish) Shattan ..!tektronix!orca!ariels