Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvaee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!cffres From: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: San Diego Message-ID: <408@uvaee.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 07:59:05 EDT Article-I.D.: uvaee.408 Posted: Sun Aug 11 07:59:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 20:42:24 EDT References: <1772@reed.UUCP> <108@unc.unc.UUCP> Reply-To: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara) Organization: EE Dept., U of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 36 In article <108@unc.unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > >In article <1772@reed.UUCP> thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) writes: >>San Diego is NOT a good place for the less-than-average looking woman! >>As a teenager I could never get a job there because I had acne, >>was a little overweight, short, and wore glasses. > >That sounds pretty bizarre. I would not be surprised if that >were the case for secretary/receptionist jobs, but usually >even ugly people can get work at McDonalds. > Would YOU want to work at MacDonalds? >>I also became afraid to go out alone at any time of the day or night >>because people would throw things at me from their cars and be generally >>obnoxious to me, the men that is-- their female companions would just giggle >>and say "look at that dog..." >>Speaking of dogs, one time I was walking on the beach, and >>these guys shoved a big dog at me and told me something along >>the lines of it being a suitable mate for me... I told them >>to fuck off, and ran for my life... > >In such situations, I believe violence is the best response. Violence is the best response when outnumbered and outmuscled? Be real, Frank! I'd run too. > > >>There ARE exceptions to this; by "fleeing" to a high school >>where almost everybody was very bright, but not good-looking, >>I met some very neat people. > >How did you do that? Are the high schools in San Diego >segregated along such lines? > Maybe she "fled" to a private school.