From: dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: 27 reasons why women like men
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:00:03 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers (MPD) Austin, TX

The following editorial appeared in Glamour magazine recently.  I am
interested in finding out people's reactions to it -- whether they think
it's true, etc.


	27 Reasons We Like Men Just the Way They Are
	[ reprinted w/o permission; no author given ]

Sure, we wish certain men would pack a bag check into the Room for
Improvement.  Sure, woemn might have handled the last couple of milennia
a little differently if we'd been in charge.  But in general, we're
very, very fond of men.  We think of them as the opposite, not the
opposing, sex; we believe that basically they're more like us than they
are different.  And while we find some of the differences troubling,
others are worthy of a hearty _vive_la_!

If they can put a man on the moon, goes one late-twentieth-century jest,
why can't they put all of them on the moon?  Our answer:  Because we'd
sorely miss the following things about men that we like just the way 
they are.

1.  When you're dancing, the big of their hand on the small of your back.

2.  That they don't take everything personally.

3.  Their healthy affection for their body-as-is.  We get hysterical when
    we don't fit into our tightest jeans.  Men only start worrying when
    they don't fit into the car.

4.  The way they get blissed out listening to a smart women talk.

5.  The open and trusting manner in which they'll point to a restaurant
    menu item and ask, "Do I like this?"

6.  French-kissing.

7.  When they drape their jackets around our shoulders on a chilly evening.

8.  If you ask them, "Who's prettier, me or Julia Roberts?"  they
    instinctively know the correct answer ("That pig?  Compared to you?
    No contest!").

9.  Their tendency to fall in love with some goofy aspect of you that
    you never noticed before:  "I'm crazy about the way your ear curls
    like a potato chip."

10.  Their refusal to take the blame when they know they don't deserve it.

11.  Their buns.

12.  That they aren't exactly sure when you're wearing makeup and when
     you're not, and can't remember whether mascara is the tube thing or
     the pencil thing.

13.  Their knack for memorizing dialogue from _The_Godfather_ (as long as
     they don't say "I want no inquiries made . . . I want you to arrange
     a meeting of the heads of the Five Families" more than once a week).

14.  The stricken/ecstatic look on their face when they're holding a
     friend's baby and suddenly, for the first time, they can imagine
     themselves doing this for real.

15.  The smell of RightGuard and honest sweat battling for dominance.

16.  They'll kill hairy insects the size of Latvia for you, even though
     they don't much relish the task either.

17.  They're willing to let you off at the entrance, any entrance, and
     go park 16 blocks away.

18.  The graciousness with which they allow us to pick at their dessert
     when we've declined to order one.

19.  Talking to them in the bathroom while they shave.

20.  Sleeping like spoons.

21.  Fighting with them after you've both got the hang of doing it fairly.

22.  They make such fabulous brothers.

23.  The way they look in well-worn jeans and a white dress shirt with
     no tie.

24.  The way they tell us they'd be friends with us even if they didn't
     love us.

25.  The way they assume we have an opinion on the designated hitter rule.

26.  When they say Pat Schroeder would make a great president, and it's
     not even to get us into bed -- really.

27.  They cried at _Fried_Green_Tomatoes_, too.


Daniel Welch
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