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- From: patstew@oz.plymouth.edu (Pat Steward)
- Subject: Re: to introduce myself
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.210439.20198@oz.plymouth.edu>
- Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:04:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.140845.6834@cs.brown.edu> psm@cs.brown.edu (Phoebe Martone) writes:
- >I'm single. Since this is such a new group, and anything is possible at this
- >stage, let's get started and create something good.
-
- Cool, someone came out of the woodwork!
-
- >I've noticed that here, as well as elsewhere, it is difficult for people intheir
- >30's and 40's and 50's (and upwards) to meet others of the opposite sex without
- >going to a place where people are awkward, defensive and nervous (dance bars).
- >I love to dance, but these places bring out the strangeness in people. As many
- >continue to point out, there are few alternatives. It would be good to develop
- >some alternatives.
-
- Do I ever agree! I went out with a couple of friends to a bar
- recently, and NO THANKS, not for me.
-
- So, what could these alternatives be? I've seen an ad in one of the
- local papers about a "singles" club -- people who get together to
- play Trivial Pursuit (remember Trivial Pursuit?), go to shows in
- Boston, that sort of thing. Haven't had the chutzpah to try it,
- yet. Other ideas?
- --
- Patricia Martin Steward patstew@oz.plymouth.edu
- I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is;
- I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express senti-
- ments that differentiate me from a doormat. Rebecca West, 1913
-