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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <7308@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:10:31 GMT
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- In article <lh25e4INN5u4@news.bbn.com> kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman) writes:
- >
- >Or how about; "Hi, I'm Elizabeth Abrams. Please call me Elizabeth."
- >Direct and clear. This way you can save all your "hostilities" for someone
- >who truely derserves them.
-
- I feel that someone who mangles names without prior permission *does*
- truly deserve hostility. (Not violence, understand, just hostility.)
- I think saying, "Hi, my name's Elizabeth Abrams" IS pretty direct
- and clear. I've just told you what my name is, so why are you going
- to assume that it's really something else?
-
- >But you're forgetting, you are the one with the preference. IMO, stating
- >the rules in the beginning is the best and fairest way to proceed.
-
- I really don't think that a preference for being called by one's
- name is all that unusual. I suspect you have a preference for being
- called "Karen", rather than "Lisa", "Jane", "Susan" or (for that matter)
- "Robert". Why might you expect someone to call you Karen, rather than
- any of these other names? Well, for one, because that's probably what
- you told them your name was when you introduced yourself! "Liz" is
- no more my name than "Robert" is yours.
-
- --Elizabeth Sullivan Maureen Abrams,
- thank you VERY much.
-
- diamond@acpub.duke.edu | The soul may choose its own society and shut
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
- | with the damnedest people. --Peter Beagle
-