Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!gatech!amdcad!linda From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS and Incompetence Message-ID: <2488@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 11:59:36 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.2488 Posted: Fri Aug 9 11:59:36 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:41:34 EDT References: <2030CJC@psuvm> <1109@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 25 Summary: Western culture and conversations > >>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. > >> > Well, I'll respond to this. I think it is representative. I know I have been > in situations as described. Fortunately it happens less and less, and I am > more and more uncomfortable when it does (there, I've patted myself on the > back). > > I just read Jerry saying that this sexual preoccupation has declined for him > with increasing age, I agree. And it feels better. Now if I could just learn > to lick my eyebrows |-). Is this a cultural phenomenon? I can't imagine this type of conversation coming up in a group of middle class or upper class men from Japan or China, or India. I've never seen men from these countries display pin-ups in their offices either. Here, I don't know if it's common, but one time I was in a lab, and the professor didn't know I was there. He was walking out of the room with another man and was telling him about women's diseases and laughing uncontrollably. This professor had always projected a manner of being very smooth and polite in my presence and I was quite shocked. (This man was American).