Steve Kudlak wrote:
> I wrote:
> > 2. I was unclear with 'primarily interested in sex (or mate location)'. No,
> > I was not saying that are the same activity, but they are the two primary
> > goals of people at a certain stage of life.
> Brief Answer, well it's sort of brief. Well one thing that should be explained
> is the "once English becomes an International Language:) it will have
> flavours." Mate is Australian Slang for companions of either sex. Sort of like
> your "buds" in American English slang. American English uses "mate" to mean
> lover, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend and stuff like that. So "mate
> selection" means finding one of the above and not finding a friend or companion
> even a close one.
Now you're making me REALLY embarassed. I'm Australian - and I meant 'mate' as
in
mate (n): one of a pair, esp of birds; fitting partner in marriage
(taken from the Concise Oxford dictionary)
> I guess I would less like to see, if I answered truly, more of a science
> fiction convention flavour. Certainly not a "beer babe/beer commercial flavour".
> Sort of more accepting, and less assuming, and not artificially sterlized. Sort
> of a happy medium for all these things. As I said, in the previous posting, it
> is the meanness masquerading as toughness that sets me off. Oh well...
Yes. I'd like the SF-convention sort of thing, myself. Where you DO get the
polite spouse-hunting or casual-partner-hunting, but the etiquette tends to
encourage people to be polite about it, dammit!
Although as *I* said in a previous post, even in SF groups you do get people
assuming that a pretty female is someone's spouse/partner/whatever, and not
interested in and of themselves. Especially a female who happens to be with
a male fan - Dancer and I are both geeks, and both go. I have to start hitting
people with fluent geekspeak to get accepted, sometimes.
Jenn V.
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Humans are the only species to feed and house entirely separate species
for no reason other than the pleasure of their company. Why?
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