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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: PMS and Incompetence
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 09:51:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 09:51:21 1985
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> > Another point: Sunny posted an article comparing some experiences from both
> > sides; so far I've seen two responses from men, both of whom stated that
> > Sunny's experience couldn't be representative. However neither tried to
> > answer this section of Sunny's posting:
> > >                                                                  On
> > >the whole, from my observations of myself, and of other people, I'd
> > >have to say that on the average, women are less bothered by their sex
> > >than men are.  Back in the old days, I all to often watched previously
> > >intelligent conversations between men grind to a total halt, or to
> > >blithering idiocy, as some nice looking woman walked by, and when she'd
> > >disappeared from sight, would turn to discussion of her "fuckability"
> > >rather than back to work.  (was that blunt enough? no, not really).  This
> > >behavior pattern is most observable in a group of only men.  The presence
> >                           ----------------------------------
> > >of women reduces it's effects.  Much of it is a very animalistic jousting
> > >between the men to prove to each other who is the horniest.

      Personally, I haven't seen this type of behavior since high school.
I have seen conversations temporarily halted while a head or two swiveled
at lunch, but not during work.  And on those occasions the conversation would
be picked up where it left off; never since high school have I seen the
conversation turn to her 'fuckability' as Sunny so nicely puts it.  I *did*
observe this kind of behavior in high school and working construction during
the summers in high school.  It seems that Sunny used to hang out with a 
pretty sleazy bunch of guys.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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