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From: estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric Stokien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The Woman Beside
Message-ID: <3827@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 90 18:29:44 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I can not agree that just because a woman has ambition and her own ideas, she 
can not be a companion to a man.  It may be impossible in a college situation, 
when people are going to be going off to many different places and careers.  
But once a person is on their own and where they want to be, there will be 
others who may share the same dreams and interests in the area.  Many men, 
myself included, want a woman with her own ideas and goals.  I've never 
changed my path to follow a woman, and I'd never expect or even like a woman 
to follow me if it would be hurting her own ambitions.  To put it terms of 
your metaphor, just because two people are on different horses, doesn't mean 
they can't hold hands.  Relationships involve compromise, but that doesn't mean
that they have to hold a person back, or be unwelcome, or even be non-mutual,
relationships are simply sharing.

A personal but not necessarily solo opinion from
 Eric Stokien  Lover, Punster and Budding Astrophysicist