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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Ken Barry)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Asking men out
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 00:37:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 00:37:28 1984
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[How about dinner?]

	I have a question for everybody. As a male who is a firm believer
in sexual equality, I have always been an enthusiastic advocate of the
idea that women should feel as free to ask men out, as vice versa. Why
should it be only we men who have to risk our delicate egos (well, mine
is) and suffer the Big Snub? I know the idea was discussed approvingly
back in the days of the 'sexual revolution', but, as far as I can see,
nothing ever came of it. Neither I, nor any other man I know, has ever
been asked out by a woman, and I know only one woman who ever
asked a man out (once). I've heard women complain about having to wait
for the man to make the advance, and it seems clear to me that it's in
the interest of neither sex for only the men to pursue, and only the
women to wait.
	So, my question is this: anyone out there know of any men who've
been asked out by women, or any women who've asked men out? We're talking
first approach, here, by the way; if you're not risking your ego on the strong
possibility of a 'no', it doesn't count. Also, does anyone have any guesses
as to why the idea never caught on? Could it be, as I suspect,
that there are few people of either sex who care to risk rejection if
they are able to rely on others risking rejection from them, instead?

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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