Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <318@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 13:03:43 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.318 Posted: Tue Jul 16 13:03:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 03:28:03 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP> <462@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 40 Keywords: egotism, chauvinism Summary: In article <2596@randvax.UUCP> edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes: >Ross Greenberg seems to feel (along with several other men on the net) >that women initiate breakups because they can so readily find a replacement. > [......mucho lines removed...] > >In conclusion, I'd like to contradict Ross & Co. with the observation >that almost all women I've known who have broken up a relationship >have done it for one reason: disillusionment, and with the observation >that men, not women, tend to be the ones who need someone ``waiting in >the wings'' before they are willing to have things break up. > I seem to notice a contradiction here, Ed. What I've been stating is that men, having to be the initiators and having to be the rejectee, are less likely to have "someone waiting in the wings". Women, as I have earlier stated, would have an easier time finding someone (if they don't already have the wing-waiter). The rest of your article was interesting, but generalized far too much for my taste. I'm theorizing here, you seem to state your opinions as facts. Nothing too bad there, but I get this feeling that I must be some separate species since I don't fit into your idea of what a man is, or should be. I just checked......I have the right instrumentation (but no documentation... see what happens when you get it bootleg? :-) ) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{vax135 | ihnp4}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. would make me their spokesperson. ---- "I was riding a wombat this morning, 'till it broke its leg. I had to shoot it" -- Ranger on Camel