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From: slag@charm.UUCP (Peter Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re:  friendships among women
Message-ID: <363@charm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-May-84 15:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 15:43:46 1984
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     	Neither sex has a monopoly on competition.  I've seen
men and women playing the same catty doggy games.  It will only
bother you if you find yourself playing along when you don't
want to.  But you have a choice.   There are plenty of warm,
supportive and funny people of all three sexes out their to be
friends with.

	On the problem of asking a friend of the opposite sex out
without being misinterpreted:  Don't worry about it.  If you're
preoccupied with thinking the person will think you are romantically interested,
then you probably are romantically interested, or some irritatingly
ambivalent part of you is.  
	So don't worry about it sounding like a date.