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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: the great bathroom conspiracy (sorry if this gets there twice)
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 13:37:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 13:37:39 1984
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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

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