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- From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:08:57 GMT
- Organization: New Mexico Technet Albuquerque, NM
- References: <1dpi4fINNrg7@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> <5702@jptcs.COM> <JMD.92Nov13135433@lion.bear.com>,<74344@apple.apple.COM>
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- In article <74344@apple.apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
- >jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
- >
- >> Sandra Loosemore (loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
- >> : I also consider wearing a suit and/or tie to be a bad sign (conformity).
- >
- >>Ugh. That stereotype again.
- >>The fact is that at least in the business I'm in (I write software for
- >>an investment bank) either you wear the uniform of a suit and tie or
- >>you don't work there. <justification deleted>
- >
- >Sure sounds like conformity to me (conformity is doing what everyone
- >else does because you feel you must to be accepted). However, just because
- >someone conforms in one area of his life doesn't mean that he conforms in
- >other areas.
-
- True.
-
- Personally, I am expected to wear a tie at work, and I do. I am paid fairly
- well for doing so. ( I *CAN* be bought, but I'm not cheap :-)
-
- But I kept the long hair and earring. And I often wear a fish tie or my
- greateful dead tie-dyed, steal-your-face tie. They can make me wear a tie,
- but they can't make me wear a BORING tie. All in all, a pretty congenial
- work atmosphere. Anyway, so I do 'conform' in my own strange way.
-
- But I ain't boring, and I ain't a 'conformist'.
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- Larry 'Purple' Hays hays@technet.nm.org
-
- In fact, "belligerently contrary" comes closer......
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