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- From: aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:42:51 GMT
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- References: <C17tnI.I73@panix.com> <1993Jan23.054955.17246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1jstv4INNl7l@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan26.040900.20453@microsoft.com> <1993Jan26.161503.10742@news.uit.no>
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- roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Just this guy) writes:
-
- >|> Or as one of the [few] women I work with put it....
- >|> my women friends think that working at microsoft would be great...
- >|> men, men, men...and the men/woman ratio [we're in MS-DOS/Windows]
- >|> is good. But...the intersection of the set of men who are desirable
- >|> [in terms of personality, interests, etc] with the set of men who
- >|> are available is usually null.
- >|>
- >|> Or, if a man is available...it's usually for cause.
- >|>
-
- >Meaning that if you meat a nice guy who you like and who is free
- >you automatically decide "there must be something wrong with
- >this guy"...
-
- I don't think that was the meaning.. I think the meaning was
- `all the good ones are taken'.. I have heard this from many single
- women as well..
-
- al
-
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- Al Aldrich aaldrich@encore.com 305-797-2335
- "Mythology: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
- origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
- from the true accounts which it invents later." -- Ambrose Bierce
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