Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: the great bathroom conspiracy (sorry if this gets there twice) Message-ID: <1068@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 13:37:39 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1068 Posted: Mon Jun 4 13:37:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:25:25 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 30 I first had my attention brought to the phenomenon by a man, until then I never thought about it (and when it was mentioned the first time, I thought "who cares!", but he seemed to harp on it (probably due to a limited imagination, I have since come to believe about this person)). Personally, I have only seen it in social situations--groups at restaurants, or at dances in high school and college (or the Stardust Ballroom) when it takes on more of a "hiding" character. It serves a protective function: I've found that you're less likely to get hassled or pinched if you can travel in a pack (and this hasn't been true when I've merely been, for instance, following a date across a dimly lit dance floor--so is it that if there is more than one woman, those jerks who want to pinch just can't decide which one, or is the date a challenge sort of like kicking sand in the face of the eternal eighty-pound weakling (which he wasn't))(those are rhetorical questions, I'm just meandering and don't really expect to start up a discussion about pinchers). Another protective feature is that if you can convince another woman to go along, then you know not EVERYONE will be talking about you at the table :-) (and maybe she'll tell you that you've tucked the hem of your skirt into your panty hose before you leave the bathroom :-) ! ). I've heard from men who say they also, you know, head for the powder room in packs (or at least, the men's room with other men friends). "Hi, Jay; say 'hi' to Ronni", Lisa Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-avalon!chabot