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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - My original post probably wasn't the clearest, but I'm not getting back into the dating scene. I was more trying to figure out how to view the current news about gender relations. Back in my day, there was a certain level of expectation that a woman should make a guy chase her a little bit. Viewed through that lens, you give a guy a certain leeway to keep pursuing when a woman is playing hard to get. If that sort of thing isn't common anymore, then it makes it a lot clearer that a guy should just stop when his initiation isn't pretty immediately met with enthusiastic reciprocation. [/quote]

You are in your late 40s? I'm just a couple of years younger, and I call bullshit. :) There were plenty of women in the 80s and 90s who were enthusiastically pursuing men. And you don't "give a guy a certain leeway to keep pursuing". What do you mean by this, exactly? No has always meant no, and women have been pretty overt with that message since the second wave; you could hardly not have known.

If you were in your 60s or 70s, maybe I'd buy this.[/quote]

Fellow 40-something here.  I think there is some difference though.  I really don't think we were as casual about sex as young women are today, as evidenced by this Aziz story, the Cat Person tale, and even this week's Modern Love column.  We had our share of one-night stands to be sure, but we didn't expect them to turn into relationships, and I don't think we considered them to be standard everyday dating like today's women do.  They seem to be having a lot of sex outside of relationships, and are then surprised when they're not treated respectfully.  There's a disconnect there as I and others see it.  [/quote]

The strange thing is you have to go back to the 50's to find twenty-somethings have less sex than the current group.[/quote]

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