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From: mjs@sfsup.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
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Subject: Re: This, that, and the other thing.
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 00:50:26 EST
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> In article <129@sfsup.UUCP> mjs@sfsup.UUCP (M.J.Shannon) writes:
> >Not all women have recovered from their
> >childhood indoctrination which usually includes statements like, "When
> >initiating a relationship with a man, play `hard to get' (and other head
> >games)."  Gentlemen interested in female companionship (more or less)
> >are required to guess as to what sort of lady they're addressing BEFORE
> >they have any indication.
> 
> The reason this argument has never impressed me very much is that I am
> not interested in women who want to play this kind of head game with
> me.  I tend to like people who are reasonably honest, so it is hard for
> me to comprehend why I ought to pursue any person who asks me not to.
> Either they really *don't* want to talk to me, go out with me, or
> whatever, or they *do* but don't want to let me know, in which case I
> don't want to talk to them, go out with them, or whatever.  If a person
> wants to play head games, s/he can find somebody else to play them
> with, and live a spiritually impoverished life without me :-).
> 
> 		Ken Arnold

Ken, I agree wholeheartedly about women who *want* to play head games.  The
point I was trying to make is that there are (a few or some or many or most)
women who do so without conscious(sp?) thought, and typically only during
the biggest game of all, the dating game.  These women are otherwise just
like the rest of us *people*, but suffer from a sort of brainwashing on
this particular subject.
-- 
	Marty Shannon
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