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- From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
- Message-ID: <721909920.3623@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:32:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.022122.5197@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Julia Smith (jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
- : Scenerio 1: You find out the person you are interested in makes
- : *quite* a bit more than you do. Does it make a difference to you?
- :
- Only if they throw money around and seem to revel in being rich
- and presume they can buy my affections. Modesty with money is required.
-
- : Scenerio 2: You find out the person you are interested in makes
- : *quite* a bit less than you do. Does it make a difference to you?
- :
- As long as they are not obsessed with how little they have. I have
- been out with people who have made dramatically less and it doesn't make
- any difference. In fact this inequity in earnings has always been the case.
-
- Some women might interpret my desire to pay for evenings out as simply
- a partiachal desire, whereas had I been a woman going out with a poorer man
- I would do the same.
-
- : Have you had someone break up with you over money issues? Do you think
- : that those of the opposite gender care more or less about money than
- : your own affiliation?
-
- I don't care to generalise about what the other gender thinks about
- money as I don't intend to go out with women as a whole, just individuals
- and so I get to consider individual attitudes.
-
- Aaron aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-