From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!CSvax:cdb
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: marriage and love
Article-I.D.: purdue.452
Posted: Tue Nov 16 12:21:26 1982
Received: Thu Nov 18 01:32:35 1982
References: teklabs.1531


        I have heard that the concept of romantic love is a relatively
recent  concept,  circa  the  Middle  ages. More recently, I have also
wondered if confusing love  and  infatuation  isn't  a  practice  more
common  to  Americans  than  the  world  at large. I'm not prepared to
defend either notion, but I do feel that there are different  concepts
of  all  kinds  of interpersonal relationships (including love) and we
should  watch  for  ethnocentricity  before  we  start  making   value
judgements.  The  only  romantic  concepts  I feel like condemning are
those that only serve as an excuse  for  exploitation.  The  men  that
confuse  love  and laundry fall into the this category, along with the
women that subscribe to the Cinderella syndrome cynically rather  than
out of conditioning "from birth".

                                                Carl Burch
                                                purdue!cdb