Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!ee163ay From: ee163ay@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Generic nice guys, generic jerks Message-ID: <721@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 20:44:49 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.721 Posted: Fri Jun 3 20:44:49 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 17:26:13 EDT Lines: 17 Since some people object to the phrase "nice guy", please replace it with "emotionally mature, open-minded person". After all, that's what we all ( hopefully ) strive to be, and what we look for in others. Likewise, replace the term "jerk" with "emotionally immature, close-minded person". Personally, I find these definitions a bit too windy for my taste, so I'll stick to "nice guy" and "jerk" as verbal shorthand, they're nice generic terms. Definitive enough, I hope, because I am not fool enough to say "nice guys do this" and "jerks do that", like some Simon Says of the net. Everybody is going to have their own personal standards, and I respect that...I'm leaving the details of "niceness" to the individual netter. So, let us waste no more time on mere semantics, let's get on with REAL topics of interest to single people.