Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax1.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!tron From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS and Incompetence Message-ID: <1109@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 15:03:09 EDT Article-I.D.: vax1.1109 Posted: Tue Aug 6 15:03:09 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:49:57 EDT References: <2030CJC@psuvm> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 22 >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: > >>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 |-). Peter B