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[geminigirl]

Thanks guys, but I still think I have to write a "Sorry, my Mom is an idiot and I'm not interested," e-mail to this guy.

It was manipulative of her to do it in the first place, and when I spoke to her on the phone, she was very apologetic. If I'd been living at home, she'd have done something equally manipulative that wasn't quite so easy for me to get out of. This is mostly harmless, it takes little or no effort to write that kind of an e-mail. It would be embarassing to her if I didn't, and possibly really rude and hurtful to him.

There's an old Lea DeLaria bit about how her parents keep inviting men over for dinner, pretending to ignore the fact that she's a lesbian, because if they invite enough men over, she'll eventually find the right one. This kind of reminds me of that...

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[geminigirl]

If someone makes an introduction, even like that, it would be rude not to follow up and say "it was nice of so and so to think of me, but I'm not interested." It's not that he'd be waiting around for me to write. It falls under the whole not burning bridges thing.