Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Male students might wonder why a woman doesn't take matters into her own hands and ask out that special guy in her Chemistry or Literature section. As one friend, whom we shall call Belle in honor of her beauty, recently lamented to me, she has tried. Belle is no wallflower. After a long "marriage," her boyfriend broke up with her. In the first month following their break up, Belle estimates that she scared off at least six potential relationship candidates...
John told me early on in our phone conversation how impressed he was that I'd called him; when he was a first-year, he never would have had the bravado to call a senior and ask her out. Not only would John's courage have failed him in that situation; even as a senior, he hadn't had the courage to call and ask out a first-year (me) who would have responded favorably...
...liberation is about sharing burdens. We are willing to make an effort and pursue you, but we do not want to replace you as the sole hunters. Yes, Harvard Women are amazing, and watching them at work is impressive. But you men are not incapable; you too can ask one of us to a movie or to coffee. Reciprocity is superior to a one-way system...
When it comes to formal-dance dates, ask early and often. Women enjoy dancing and dressing up. However, it is frustrating to be asked without proper lead time and insulting to feel like an afterthought. And, every woman wants to feel like its her special night at a formal; having to ask a date can suck the magic out of the evening...
Speaking realistically, though, the leap from familiar suburban mailcarrier to action hero is a lot to ask of the moviegoing public. And Costner is not the actor to ask it. His Postman is supposed to be a traveling actor (the first of many ironies) who uses his charm and chutzpah to snowball the entire American West into believing that a new government has been created (in Minneapolis, of all places) and that postal routes are being reestablished all over the country. Costner, however, is so devoid of charisma and conviction that you wonder why anyone would believe...