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From: quint@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Amqueue)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.motss
Subject: Re: mail.personals: October stats
Message-ID: <469@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 07:42:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 07:42:27 1985
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References: <928@abnji.UUCP> <17135@watmath.UUCP>
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: Why hasn't anyone commented on these????
Xref: linus net.singles:8650 net.motss:2007

I think I might have misunderstood something here, but in my excerpted quote 
it seems that jmsellens is saying that the statistics prove that men are being
more aggressive....

In article <17135@watmath.UUCP> jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) writes:
>In <928@abnji.UUCP> in net.singles nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:
>>The current membership totals in the personals mailing lists are:
>>
>>men -> men	6
>>men -> women	15
>>women -> men	57
>>women -> women	2
>>
>>In the last month there have been four personals mailed, all men->women.
>
>I'm surprised no one has commented on these stats.  When I first read them,
>a couple of things struck me (No, Mom, please don't hit me again!! :-) )
>
>- The distribution of poeple on the lists wasn't particularly surprising.
>  It seemed (to me) to follow certain traditional/historical expectatations.
>  I mean, women seem to have been encouraged to "wait for the right man"
>  to come along.
>- The small number of messages were all from men to women, consistent with
>  the traditional "man the aggressor" idea.
>John

Looking at the numbers, 59 articles were generated by women, 57 of them to men.
31 of the articles were generated by men, 15 to women. Women sent *more*
messages, and a higher percentage of them were to men. How is this consistent
with women waiting for the right man, and men being the aggressor?

Im confused
/amqueue