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To: Lane3 who wrote (8881)	4/14/2002 12:53:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

You and Poet need to get together and get your story straight. You're doing a good job of undermining each other. Message 17329237 Getting laid is not the same as finding a compatible mate. reduce the pool of suitable partners Finding a "suitable partner", as Steven pointed out, is never easy for anyone. Not uncommonly there are several tries. Many are never successful. And just by going to college, the supply is reduced. Generally the college-educated want college educated partners. And not whine about it. Oh, come now. If that wasn't a whine festival, what was it? On a "60 Minutes" report on the book Sunday, Lesley Stahl talked to two young women who go to Harvard Business School. They agreed that while they are the perfect age to start families, it was not so easy to find the right mates. Men, apparently, learn early to protect their eggshell egos from high-achieving women. The girls said they hid the fact that they go to Harvard from guys they meet, because it's the kiss of death. "The H-bomb," they call it. "As soon as you say Harvard Business School . . . that's the end of the conversation," Ani Vartanian said. "As soon as the guys say, 'Oh, I go to Harvard Business School,' all the girls start falling into them." So the moral of the story is, the more women accomplish, the more they have to sacrifice? The problem here is not only that women are procrastinating too long, it is that men veer away from "challenging" women because they have an atavistic desire to be the superior force in a relationship.

To: Lane3 who wrote (8881)	4/14/2002 1:09:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The problem is those Harvard women are smart enough to know they aren't finding suitable partners Far too many hook up and breed with less than suitable partners, divorce, fight constantly, and generally live lives of quiet or not so quiet desperation, which accounts for all those people who don't go to Harvard, I suppose. Of course from an evolutionary point of view your gametes don't care whether you are happy or not- they just want you to reproduce and have your offspring survive long enough to reproduce, and so on. There is a certain tension there between evolution and optimizing human happiness. That's how I see it, anyhow.