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Article #132Re: BEING SHORT
From: debbie mulcahy
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 00:00
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> > Frank Calderon wrote: > > > > As someone who's 5'9" (OK, OK, I'm actually 5' 8-1/2") I thought I'd throw in > > this little bit o' info: > > > > 20/20 (on ABC) had a story about short men and their dating problems this > > Friday night (think their producers might be reading some of these posts?). > > And guess what they found? Most women prefer tall men (surprise, surprise)! > > > > They had a group of men in a room, with one short man in the middle, and a > > group of women in another room looking through a two-way mirror at the men. > > The women were asked which men they would date. None picked the short > > guy--even after they were told the short guy was an M.D. who had written a > > successful book, yatta, yatta. > > > > They did this several times with different guys (including different short > > guys) and different women. In one particular case, they were told the short > > guy (who happened to be 5 feet tall this time) was a venture capitalist who > > became a millionaire at 25--and they STILL wouldn't go out with him! > > > > Unbelievably shallow, I think... > > > This isn't one of those 'women things'. I just read recently, in Texas Monthly I think, about a study where they ran some different personal ads to see what attracted responses. In one ad, the woman described herself as overweight. In another, the woman described herself as a junkie. The junkie got far more responses. As the article said, men prefer junkie to chunky. Debbie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f731,5baab29f1c13eb92 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f731,public X-Google-Thread: f43e0,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e0,public X-Google-Thread: 1095c1,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gid1095c1,public X-Google-Thread: f4c9a,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4c9a,public X-Google-Thread: 10a5b2,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a5b2,public X-Google-Thread: f8a21,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8a21,public X-Google-Thread: f9306,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9306,public X-Google-Thread: f4f15,9ee8a7b193df5629 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f15,public From: debbie mulcahy <irdm@msg.ti.com> Subject: Re: BEING SHORT Date: 1997/01/07 Message-ID: <32D2A5F6.1D26@msg.ti.com> X-Deja-AN: 208491664 references: <31160E70.3346@postoffice.ptd.net> <32935CAA.1891@Neversoft.com> <329A3AF4.176A@Neversoft.com> <57od8p$8k4$1@info1.fnal.gov> <58b7qu$lql@clotho.c2.org> <32B89AA3.5040@webspan.net> <Pine.SUN.3.94.961220094107.19685A-100000@access2.digex.net> <32C31715.40AB@radix.net> <32C324A5.29D3@who.net> <32C4B50A.4D40@herald.infi.net> <MPG.d2e66c828b770df989760@nntp.ix.netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Texas Instruments mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: dfw.singles,dfw.personals,de.talk.romance,dc.romance,houston.singles,houston.personals,fj.soc.men-women,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,alt.romance.mature-adult,alt.romance.online,alt.personals,ba.singles,alt.romance.unhappy,alt.soulmates,ba.personals,chi.personals,la.personals x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I)