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Subject: Women asking men out - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 07:35:13 EST
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isrnix!akp    Dec 12 01:09:00 1983

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Question for men:
	Have you ever been asked by a woman,
	"Why don't you take me out on a date?" (instead of being asked, "Why
don't we go out on a date?")

Question for women:
	Why do women sometimes phrase the question that way?

I can only assume that the woman is having a hard enough time taking the
initiative in this situation (going against the grain, as it were), and she
can pass the buck by phrasing the question upside-down. Another example is
the following dialogue:
Woman:	"Ask me out on a date."
Man:	"Would you like to go out on a date?"
Woman:	"Sure!"

Seems odd, yet I've had it happen to me, and I've seen/heard about it more
than once.							-- Allan Pratt
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