Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!phipps From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Practical Reasons / Re: "Forward Women" Message-ID: <3954@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 22:52:13 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3954 Posted: Fri Aug 3 22:52:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 04:04:44 EDT References: <2942@alice.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 30 I'll resist the temptation to make a public ad hominem (ad feminam ?) attack on the promulgator [who should have signed her name, by the way] of the "practical point of view" that women should *not* ask men out. I'm sure that someone will do the dirty work for me sometime soon. There are numerous reasons why it can be practical for a woman to ask a man out. The man may be uncertain of the woman's interest to a sufficient degree that he may not ever ask the woman out. Many men are supposedly poor at deciphering a woman's "subtle" signals, which may be "nonexistent" as far as they can determine. The woman may draw a crowd, and the man may fear he can't compete with the masses of men already lavishing their attention on the woman. The man may be really super, but also super shy; he might be unwilling to ask out any woman without extreme provocation. The man might be temporarily and uncharacteristically unaggressive, as the result of the recent termination of a prior relationship. What's wrong with giving the guy a little positive reinforcement ? -- Clay Phipps -- { amd hplabs!hpda sri-unix ucbvax!amd } !fortune!phipps { ihnp4 cbosgd decvax!decwrl!amd harpo allegra}