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From: plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dancing Misc.
Message-ID: <1002@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 10:51:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 10:51:52 1985
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In article <1090@cbosgd.UUCP> rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt) writes:
>
>My conclusion is that most women in this country ARE behind the times in
>this respect.  I lived in Denmark during 1979 and 1980, and every time
>I went out to a club there, women I had never met asked me to dance.  It
>wasn't a pick-up.  Just being friendly and open (and forward).  But then
>women there tend to have much stronger personalities than most American
>women, and their society supports that in many ways.  How will American
>women ever be "equal" if they can't take the initiative in social matters?
>
   Just an aside about Danish women:
The director of the department at a company I recently worked for was
Danish, as was his wife.  At a departmental social gathering, she was talking
to another (American) woman who was about to get married.  Her comment about
marriage went something like this:  "Well, now that you're getting married,
you'll quit your job and start having babies..."  Needless to say, the
soon-to-be-married woman objected most strenuously.  MY conclusion is that
if you want somebody to ask you to dance, find a woman from Denmark.  
Otherwise, I'll take the American Woman any day. (semi :-).
                        -joel