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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.164105.21023@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:41:05 GMT
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- Just this guy (roarf@stud.cs.uit.no) wrote:
- :
- : Sounds reasonable in a way. What you say is that many men
- : (and women) create a mask of "warm-and-caring", and when the
- : woman (man) discovers there is something cold etc behind that
- : mask he/she (it?) decides that _all_ non-jerks are bogus.
-
- I think it is possible that someone acting the part may do a more convincing
- job, than a genuine individual.
- After all they know what to actively hide.
- Whereas the genuine would not be (activly) "telling" their partner how nice
- they were. (And might be more likely to show their faults)
-
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