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- From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212206.23327@netcom.com>
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- References: <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com> <7297@news.duke.edu> <lh25e4INN5u4@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:22:06 GMT
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- In article <lh25e4INN5u4@news.bbn.com> kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman) writes:
- >In article <7297@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
- >|> If someone is "just trying to be friendly", why not ask me if I
- >|> like to have my name shortened, and what I like to have it shortened
- >|> to?
- >
- >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'm a lot more impressed by friendliness when it shows some
- >|> consideration. Calling me "Liz" without asking sounds like phony
- >|> familiarity... anyone unfamiliar enough with me to call me "Liz"
- >|> isn't familiar enough with me to shorten my name in the first place.
- >
- >Make sure they understand this right from the introduction.
- >
- Karen, I think you're really reaching here. I don't think it's
- appropriate for people to have to state a bunch of ground rules
- up front in order to ward off the unwanted intimacy of others.
-
- Not only that, but it has been my experience that in many cases where
- my introduction of myself has been ignored, it has been followed by
- other liberties I didn't care to indulge. One person, in spite of
- being told, over and over again, what my name was, insisted on calling
- me "TT", and hugging me when he saw me. If someone mispronounces my
- name (Shawna instead of Shannah which rhymes with Hannah) I don't make
- a big deal out of it, but I think most of us can agree that TT is
- going just a little too far.
-
- If you want to defend the terminally over-friendly, please don't let
- me stop you. However, I believe that anyone with a grain of sense and
- tact can take the "hint" from how someone introduces themselves, and call
- them by the name as stated. I don't believe that most people are either
- stupid or oblivious enough to need the "Please call me Elizabeth". Those
- that do just label themselves in my mind as being too forward, and while
- I might not be actively nasty, I do treat them with reserve and caution.
-
- After all, if Elizabeth wanted to be called Liz, why wouldn't she
- introduce herself that way?
-
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