On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:13:04 +1000, you wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:58:15AM +0100, James A. Sutherland wrote:
>> Hrm. I'm not exactly an expert on this, but I didn't think pointer
>> arithmetic was supposed to be part of the relationship? Granted, "will
>> she sleep with me?" shouldn't really be the first question you ask
>> yourself when meeting someone, but "is she attracted to me?" is a
>> fairly important point when date-seeking, I think... (I'm out of my
>> depth here, never having tried it, but the theory seems sound.)
>
>But should it be the first thing on your mind when you meet a woman, any
>woman.
Certainly not - I did say **when date-seeking**. In the same way, if I
were looking for someone to help me with a buggy Perl script, "does
she know much about Perl?" would be uppermost on my mind!
> Some men have told me it's inevitable that I get sized up as a
>sexual partner everytime I meet a heterosexual man.
Hrm. I'm a heterosexual man, and I don't think that way - obviously,
if I find myself attracted to someone I would wonder if the attraction
is mutual -
>I don't like this.
I don't like that attitude either, although it does show up a great
deal...
>And I don't like people condoning it terribly much, it's put me in some
>awful situations.
Eh? How can someone *thinking* something about you put you in an awful
situation?! Surely they would have to ACT on those thoughts in some
way for you even to know about them?!
James.
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