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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and Incompetence
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 11:59:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 11:59:36 1985
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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).