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From: grwalter@watnot.UUCP (Fred)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Beach harassment:  some questions
Message-ID: <11397@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 16:38:54 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 16:38:54 1986
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Reply-To: grwalter@watnot.UUCP (Fred)
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In article <2585@sdcrdcf.UUCP> alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) writes:
>
>When you add the fact that she was alone and didn't shut down the men
>at the start of their conversations, to make them go away immeadiately,
>her behavior could be construed as that of a tease. I'm sorry that you
>don't see that.
>
Perhaps she was just being polite. I know that when I start talking to a
female that (I later find out) didn't really want to talk to me, they usually
are polite, but very brief in their responses to my questions/thoughts. This 
usually lets me know that they don't want to talk without them rejecting me. Or
she was perhaps intimidated/slightly scared of the guys (its a wierd world out
there) and felt that telling them outright to go away might cause them to react
objectionally.
>
>The reason i posted is that it is Eric who needs the consciousness
>raising. Why can't he be more open-minded about her motives?
>
Perhaps Erik just likes to assume the best of people (aside from the guys :-)) 

							FRED

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