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From: seger_b@husc4.harvard.edu (carol seger)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Treat 'em like dirt boys
Message-ID: <360@husc6.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 22:40:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.360
Posted: Wed Oct  8 22:40:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 01:45:12 EDT
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Reply-To: swa@comet.lcs.mit.edu (Steven Augart)
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Summary: I am repulsed by this cretin's perverted ideas.

I normally neither read nor post to the Usenet.  I happened
to be looking over my roommate's shoulder, and I ran across an article
that angered me enough to make me want to reply.  Therefore, while
Carol is studying, I am posting this reply from her account.  

In article <56@ritcv.UUCP> sxc8765@ritcv.UUCP (Sean P. Cunningham) writes:
> O.k. I've had just about enough of this bulls**t, I wish some 
> WOMEN (not men) would explain to me why they must be treated
> like dirt for them to like you back?  Yes it does sound stupid

It sure does.  

Even though I'm not a woman, I can easily answer your question.  The
answer is that you are *wrong*.  Women don't need to be "treated like
dirt".  Over the course of about 7 romantic relationships (the last
one of which has lasted for a year and 8 months, so far) and over the
course of innumerable friendships and acquaintanceships with women,
I've never had the distressing experience of meeting someone who
wanted to be "treated like dirt".

> but unfortunately no matter where I travel that is all I find.
> No it is not just me, anybody I know that has a girlfriend doesn't
> treat them like they deserve and yet they still stay with him.
> Perplexing eh ?

It must have something to do with the company you keep.  None of my
male or female friends abuse their girlfriends.  I certainly don't.
I hope you're just misinterpreting the nature of their relationships.


However, it is true that there are a number of people (men and women)
with poor self-images.  Many of them consequently don't think that
they're worthy of love and affection.  Anybody who exploits such a
person by treating them "like dirt" is pure reptilian slime.  If all
the men that you know who have girlfriends are like this, then you
should dump them immediately and find some new male friends, male
friends who are human beings.

You should also try making one or two female *friends*.  (If you had
any female friends, you would not be naive enough to post what you
just posted).  Try relating to women as fellow human beings instead of
treating women as mysterious creatures.  You'll find it enlightening.

> Even if you don't agree with me, this posting should stur up
> some good responses....

I strongly suspect that you posted this article just so that you could
then enjoy the shocked responses of people like me.  However, I'm
posting this reply on the off-chance that there might, somewhere in
some corner of the universe that I hope never to enter, be someone who
really holds these incredible opinions that you propound.

> Signed
> Dazed Confused, etc...
> Sean@ritcv

Revolted, offended, disgusted, etc...
SWA
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Steven Augart
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