Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvaee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!cffres From: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Message-ID: <374@uvaee.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 11:41:35 EDT Article-I.D.: uvaee.374 Posted: Fri Jul 26 11:41:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 09:18:41 EDT References: <968@peora.UUCP> <1424@mtx5b.UUCP> Reply-To: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara) Organization: EE Dept., U of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 23 In article <27@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > >I don't think many women at all prefer a man who appears weak (much less >a man who really _is_ weak). I hear a lot of talk about "the new androgeny", >but that's all it is -- just talk. A woman loves a sensitive, platonic male >friend so she can cry on his shoulder about how crude and insensitive >her man has been acting lately. But does she ever think to leave her man >for the sensitive friend? Not likely, that might ruin a perfect friendship! >Occasionally I run across a woman who is completely fed up with male >dominance, male egos, male stupidity, etc. So what does she do? >Does she take up with a soft, nurturing, sensitive, compliant man? Heck no! >She studies radical feminist politics and spurns men completely to satisfy >herself with a lesbian relationship. The "effiminate" man is again left >out in the cold. > If all this is true, I must be doomed to eternal bachelorhood and not because I couldn't attract the stereotypical "woman" you describe. I simply wouldn't be interested in such a person. Chuck Ferrara @ U. Va. Dept. of EE; Charlottesville,Va. 22901 UUCP: ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!cff (804)924-7316