From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!hlite
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: On social competition (Indirectly, at least)
Article-I.D.: alice.2231
Posted: Sat Nov 20 02:15:49 1982
Received: Sat Nov 20 07:43:36 1982

In my more socially paranoid moments,

1) I (a male) have felt that
any female in the room expected the males in the room to make
contact by breaking through the competition. 
(And acting like insensitive jerks in the process)

2)  At the same time, I hear females bemoaning the kind of people they meet.

Perhaps the reason for 2) is that the people who are willing
to do 1) are the insensitive clods who don't care about ruining
others' relationships (and running roughshod over both
their own sex, and the other), and who are the kind of person that
promotes bemoaning their acquaintance.  Perhaps the males who feel
this way should at least not run away when approached, and the females
who don't like their company investigate the people who fade into the
woodwork when the elbowing starts.

I really don't want to flame, but I HAD to say it.
The name and address are deliberately forged.  Don't mail,
there's nobody there.