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From: rance@cornell.UUCP (Rance Cleaveland)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Are the sexes the same?
Message-ID: <349@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 10:10:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 10:10:08 1985
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> 
> I don't treat conversations with my male friends any differently than
> I do my female friends.  We talk about all the same things whether
> it is personal relationships, sex, jobs, family, etc..  The only time
> I don't talk about the same things is when I don't feel 100% comfortable
> around a person (will he understand? type of thing)  I feel if a person
> is a true friend you should be able to talk about anything regardless of
> the topic.

How about baseball? (;-)).

Seriously, I'm not so sure that I go along with the abovestated sentiment.
Many of my friends have different interests, and non-interests as well,
and I notice that I talk about different things with them as a result.
This is pretty natural, I think; at least I feel natural doing so.

Regards,
Rance Cleaveland