Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ray From: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: What women want Message-ID: <1324@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 15:00:51 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1324 Posted: Tue Aug 13 15:00:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 15:27:15 EDT References: <3498@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 33 Summary: In article <3498@decwrl.UUCP> jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson) writes: > > >From my experience, what women say they want >is not always the same as what they actually want. I spent 2 years >in business school surrounded by "feminist" women who insisted that >what they wanted was a man who treat them as an equal. But, what I >found was that, treating them they way they said they wanted resulted >in having lots of "good friends". In a romantic relationship, these >women still wanted men to hold doors for them, buy them dinner, etc. > There is a columnist named Doris Anderson who puts her thoughts in the Toronto Star every Saturday. Usually she writes about social issues. On Saturday, August 3/85 her column was devoted to the problems women have finding a good man. In light of what Seth has just stated I provide a (somewhat paraphrased) approximate quote from Ms. Anderson's article: "Women scan the streets looking for Rambo, hoping that he will turn into a Care Bear after the wedding." (I don't believe that this is true of all women -- but it certainly is true of some.) > >I am not saying that this phenomenon is unique to women. I'm just saying >that you can't always believe what people tell you, because people >don't always know what they want. > > Seth Jackson > dec-curium!jackson Ray Allen utcsri!ray