Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:59:31 +1000, you wrote: >On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:18:42PM -0400, Rick Scott wrote: >> Seeing as I know a lot of people (myself included) don't read >> Slashdot on anything approaching a regular basis, I was wondering >> if anyone had anything to say about: >> >> http://tu

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
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 me

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread jenn
James A. Sutherland wrote: > I agree with other comments here that "canned exploits" are a bad > strategy in general - having said that, a "beginners' guide" to > relationships with women is something a lot of us (me!) need... Ba-dum ching! You've hit the nail on the head. The first three or f

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread James A . Sutherland
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 real

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > But should it be the first thing on your mind when you meet a woman, any > woman. Some men have told me it's inevitable that I get sized up as a > sexual partner everytime I meet a heterosexual man. I don't like this. > And I don't like people condoning it terribly much, i

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread jenn
James A. Sutherland wrote: >> 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 kn

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:27:46AM +0100, James A. Sutherland wrote: > >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 thou

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:37:55PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But should it be the first thing on your mind when you meet a woman, any > > woman. Some men have told me it's inevitable that I get sized up as a > > sexual partner everytime I meet a heterosexual man. I don't like this. > > A

[issues] The big issue...

2001-04-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
I know Jenn said that this list was discussing some Big Issues way back in the day, but most of the issues discussed here are less sweeping these days. So: Women and professional computing careers, why are there so few of us (relative to men)? And should there be more of us? I tend to work from

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread J B
>But should it be the first thing on your mind when you meet a woman, any >woman. Some men have told me it's inevitable that I get sized up as a >sexual partner everytime I meet a heterosexual man. I don't like this. >And I don't like people condoning it terribly much, it's put me in some >awful s

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread J B
Agreedbasically he should seperate the essays. Have one be a guide for casual sex and the other be a guide for relationshipsthink that would help? >His latter few essays in that set >are .. sort of ok for a beginner's guide to lasting relationships. >But you'd never know they were ther

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks

2001-04-04 Thread Terri Oda
>And ta-da, there you go. You now have a relationship (admittedly >friendship) with a woman. And that will boost your confidence and >general social skills - you'll develop the skills from there to have the >romantic/sexual relationship. > >After all, you wanted a beginner's guide. Begin with f

Re: [issues] ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks (sp: semi-coherent rant)

2001-04-04 Thread Rick Scott
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:37:55PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Being sized up like that always makes me feel like a piece of meet. > That sort of feeling has GOT to be the main reason for the 'lesbian > seperatist' type of feminism... and really, I can't blame them. I > HATE feeling