Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!moiram From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <5507@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:21:43 EDT Article-I.D.: tektroni.5507 Posted: Wed Jul 17 16:21:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 02:12:19 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP> <462@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 25 >> Ed Hall >>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. > Ross Greenberg >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). What I got from Ed's article was that it was your projection that women needed to have someone waiting in the wings, or the assurance that it would not be too difficult to find someone else. But (in *his* experience) the prospect of having/finding someone else has less to do with it than women willing to *not* be in a relationship rather than to be in one that isn't giving them what they want. I vote with Ed. Moira Mallison tektronix!moiram