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From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: women friends
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 16:50:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 16:50:55 1984
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Just a couple points on woman friends:
(1) I think that I am more likely to start a casual conversation
on a plane (for example) with a man than with a woman 
(2) I have had long periods when all my friends were men and equally
long periods when all my friends were women--not sure if this was
due to a run of luck or something about how I was defining myself
(3) My friend Elaine studies "networks of social support" and I seem
to remember her saying that women tend to have stronger and richer
networks
(4) A couple years ago, the Detroit Free Press had an article in which
a number of local celebrities told who was their best friend.  It
was interesting because some women had male best friends, but no
men gave a woman as his best friend.  (I think this expresses some
power perceptions, but I'm not sure.)
(5) The bottom line is that the two people I'd tell something to
first are my mother and my friend Charlotte, who is in NC...  

									Patricia Carstensen