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Subject: Re: Once again...Where did all the girls go? OT

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:32:46 02/07/01

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On February 07, 2001 at 12:38:07, Mike S. wrote:

>On February 07, 2001 at 11:24:37, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>(...) Nerds will never get the "girls".
>>As I have aged I found that the girls tire of the lack of a future with "macho
>>men".
>>Todays intelligent ,sophisticated woman like the prospects of having someone
>>with a half an ounce of brains.
>>The nerds apparently have ambition, goals, and aspirations.
>>But more importantly they know how to plan to make their life more successful
>>and to achieve these objectives.
>
>You could make a quiz from this statement, asking which one of these 5 sentences
>is the true *one*. :o) I have been told, "Sorcerers get all the girls", but this
>was a computer game.
>
>Btw. we still have the same problem at the CSS-Forum which doesn't have girls. I
>tried to advertise in a german women's usenet group (which was called "woman
>only" or similar). They were actually talking about flowerpots and cosmetics
>there... not a single feminist to find! There was seemingly not much
>self-confidence among these girls, that woman in general may have the same
>talent for chess like men. I had to try to convince THEM that they have the same
>talent in general. One of them openened a message board for "women and chess",
>but didn't get much visitors.
>
>Of course, none of them ever paid a visit to the CSS-Forum... at least none ever
>posted.
>
>How can we change this?

We do not know it.

The only thing that you may know is that none posted with a female name.
It is possible that one of the females posted and hide her real name.

Uri



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