Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.CDN (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: To be sensitive or to be an asshole!? Message-ID: <504@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 14:48:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.504 Posted: Thu Aug 9 14:48:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 01:05:16 EDT Organization: UBC Vision, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 17 > Nah. All pretentiousness and hand wringing aside, sensitivity in males > is often viewed by BOTH sexes as weakness. The assholes may be assholes, > but they don't spend their nights alone. Do we say one thing and do another, > I wonder? Ron Christian (1) If sensitivity is often viewed as a weakness, then the best way to fight that attitude is to be strong and retain one's sensitivity. It can be done if it is important enough. (2) The assholes may not spend their nights "alone" but is it true that they don't spend their nights "lonely"? Is it not better to be "alone" than to be with someone who doesn't respect or understand one's sensitivity? Spending the night with such a person is not much of a "reward" for being sensitive. The fact that "assholes" don't spend their nights alone doesn't bother me or make me envy them. Farzin Mokhtarian < ubc-vision!mokhtar >