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caffeine Member (Idle past 1049 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
I don't think this is a general trait of women - it's just that huddling against the cold is an ingrained response in British women, after years of venturing out in sub-zero temperatures armed only with two scraps of fabric and a handbag.
Edited by caffeine, : typo
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4967 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
Are you talking about this arm-cross? Yes. And I was slightly perturbed by the explanatory text below the picture: "Women often cross their arms in front of men they don’t like..." I suppose, deep down, I'd always suspected that was the answer. I just couldn't bring myself to accept it.
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4967 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
Maybe you should just quit staring at their boobs... That's what I mean. Their arms get in the way of a great view!
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purpledawn Member (Idle past 3482 days) Posts: 4453 From: Indiana Joined: |
quote:Now you have to figure out why you annoy women.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
If you conmbine a tight arm cross with a hurried walk with head down you have a dead ringer for feeling insecure.
A standing, starring arm cross with a tilt of hips (in women, not men- they stand balanced) is an intimadation gesture. On another side of the coin, walking quickly with a bad bra can require some support.
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4967 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
If you conmbine a tight arm cross with a hurried walk with head down you have a dead ringer for feeling insecure. You may well be right and it makes intuitive sense. The head down or hunched posture is a common feature I've noticed, but it's not always associated with a hurried walk. I've noticed a lot of women adopting this posture while ambling slowly around the supermarket with their husbands. It's rather sad that so many women should feel so insecure in such a bland environment. Can that really be the case?
On another side of the coin, walking quickly with a bad bra can require some support. I assume you're talking as a medical professional and not from personal experience! In either case, I'm quite sure you are right. I did wonder if it might be a posture derived from a cradling instinct. It's a posture I think I see most commonly in younger women and teenagers. From an evolutionary point of view it would seem to make sense that women should feel very much at ease in that posture. What do you think? I'm slightly worried I may be coming across as either a misogynist or pervert, or both.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8546 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
I'm slightly worried I may be coming across as either a misogynist or pervert, or both. I see no indications of the former, but since you are obviously a male of the species, then, like the rest of us, you are, by definition, the latter. Ain't it wonderful?
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4967 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
I'm slightly worried I may be coming across as either a misogynist or pervert, or both. I see no indications of the former, but since you are obviously a male of the species, then, like the rest of us, you are, by definition, the latter. Ain't it wonderful? That's a relief, because by definition none of us can be perverts if we are all the same. But I get your point.
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onifre Member (Idle past 2976 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
If you conmbine a tight arm cross with a hurried walk with head down you have a dead ringer for feeling insecure. And those are the ones you want to approach, fellas. A friendly smile, a pleasant compliment and she will unfold those arms in a heart beat... and hopefully grab your penis. - Oni
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8546 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
n a heart beat... and hopefully grab your penis. See, Chimp? I told you we were all perverts.
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2723 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Ringo.
Ringo writes: She isn't walking though. I bet we could watch that exact scene from The Quick and the Dead and find out if she does, though. -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4967 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
Oni: n a heart beat... and hopefully grab your penis. AZPaul3:See, Chimp? I told you we were all perverts. We can't ALL be perverts! Any heterosexual man who didn't want a woman to grab their penis would be a pervert - because there must be something very wrong with them!
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2320 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
We're not, women are just prudes.
We can't ALL be perverts! Any heterosexual man who didn't want a woman to grab their penis would be a pervert - because there must be something very wrong with them!
Unless the woman in question is exceptionally ugly, of course.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
and hopefully grab your penis Better hope they are hurridly walking in the same direction....
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Unless the woman in question is exceptionally ugly, of course. Or had drill bits and knives for fingers. Edited by Larni, : No reason given.
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