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From: markmo@tekig4.UUCP (Mark Morland)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: a different Personal Ad discussion
Message-ID: <262@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 12:35:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 12:35:07 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:50:42 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <436@azure.UUCP> chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) writes:
>
>...I would disagree with the creation of such a newsgroup.
>...It tends to promote a "meat-rack" attitude towards personal relationships.
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
				 MRA
>	Chris Andersen

Chris has left the net, I hope it isn't in bad form to reply to his ideas
now.

I have first hand experience as an advertiser in (and responder to) 
the personal column of a local weekly newspaper.  I am pleased with
my experience, and don't feel that the medium promoted a MRA in me
or in anyone I've met.  My ad included statements (or are they
"veiled references" :-) suggestive of the sexuality of a woman that
I would hope for in a SO.  I hope that does not equal a MRA.

To open a NEW discussion:

My paraphrase of the classic bozo ad (this was printed in Portland):

     (Superlatives) Male, self made MILLIONAIRE, seeks (superlatives)
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     female for European travel, who can pay her own way.  Box XXXXX.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have personally judged some advertisers as bozos and chauvinist pigs,
but I believe the great majority of advertisers are sincere, interesting,
and nice people.  I am posting my recent print ad below, to stimulate
discussion on PRINT ads usefulness/completeness/vagueness/truthfulness/
terseness/etc.

******************

DO I HAVE SPRING  FEVER  OR  TESTOSTERONE  POISONING?   Tall
smiling 27 year non-nerd engineer wants fast friendship with
friendly,  feminist,  confident  &  intelligent  woman  with
healthy  libido,  25-45.   I like fast cars, slow airplanes,
medium motorcycles, skiing steeps & lazy, loving  Saturdays.
I  love  JAZZ  & acoustic music and like others for dancing.
Let's SHARE humor,  concerts,  dinners,  dreams,  romance  &
whatever makes you laugh, smile, & purr.

******************

Feel free to speculate as to what type of person I might be, to print such
a thing.  There are a couple of people on the net I think would defend
me.  Right, Jim? :-)

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Mark Morland   tektronix!tekig4!markmo


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