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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: Dancing Misc.
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 16:21:36 EDT
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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

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