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From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: living alone
Message-ID: <1848@reed.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:10:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:10:44 1985
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Reply-To: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
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In article <480@lasspvax.UUCP> chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu) writes:
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>  Living alone to me is not unnatural just scary.  
[...]
>Now that I think about it I was never scared at night when I was in
>California even though I lived in an empty house for a month (house
>sitting) and the windows wouldn't even lock, but that was before I
>went to any vampire and zombie movies.  Could anyone explain why guys
>like to take poor unsuspecting girls (er female-types) to horror movies?

	Sounds like you should avoid those kind of movies at all costs.
Horror movies have never bothered me, although I do dislike (putting it
mildly) a lot of blood and gore, like in things like Friday the 13th.
But I really enjoy a good horror movie. I'm a Hitchcock fanatic (Psycho
is one of my favourite movies) because I love the suspense and terror
that his movies generate, and I would go to the ends of the earth
to see a good vampire movie, (although I must admit, a feeling of fear
and suspense is not the reason that I go to vampire movies. But that's a
different story.) In fact, I specifically asked the person that I'm
dating to take me to Frightnight. Even if it's not a vampire flick the
feeling of suspense and fear (as long as things don't get too gross)
really, uh, does a lot for me. But not everyone is like that. If these
kind of movies scare you too much, and it seems like they do, then tell
your dates that and request to see other movies. Since there are a lot
of women, or at least some, who really do enjoy these movies, then maybe
the men you're dating don't realise that you don't feel that way. On the
other hand, if they know that these movies bother you so, and yet they
still really want to take you to see them, then I would suggest that
they are being rather sadistic and you shouldn't bother with them.

	cheers -

	elizabeth g. purtell

	(Lady Godiva)