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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Complimenting Strangers
Message-ID: <1204@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 18:07:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 18:07:51 1985
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In article <585@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes:
>Dear God, I hope men aren't getting so afraid of being taken the wrong way
>that they're afraid to say nice things to women.  What is this world coming
>to?  PLEASE KEEP SAYING THE NICE THINGS (in an non-threatening way)!!!!!!  
>-- 
>Sarah E. Dugan
>(a friend of Dr. Bob and Bill W.)
>"One Day At A Time"

   How about "Dear God, I can't even say something nice to a woman without
being misinterpreted."  It's not fear that stops me from saying nice things,
or offering to walk somebody home, or staying on the same side of the street
at night, but sadness and anger that my well-meaning acts are taken out of
context.  I'll continue to take the path of least resistance.
-- 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."