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Conference quark::mennotes-v1

Title:Topics Pertaining to Men
Notice:Archived V1 - Current file is QUARK::MENNOTES
Moderator:QUARK::LIONEL
Created:Fri Nov 07 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 26 1993
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:867
Total number of notes:32923

46.0. "Reactions to Women's wishlist" by RANCHO::RAH (sit on a potato pan, otis) Fri Dec 12 1986 19:22

    Since this is the mens conf., it seems the more
    approriate place for reactions to the WOMANNOTES
    wish list.
    
    Sounds to me like we gotta be sensitive (but not too),
    macho (just enough to be interesting),
    clean (Is it worth the sacrifice,guys?)
    have straightforward belief systems (do we gotta have religion!!?)
    not rev our engines too much,
    and suppress our biological urges.
    
    Sure sounds reasonable to me.
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46.2Every dog has his day?ULTRA::ZURKOSecurity is not prettyMon Dec 15 1986 12:1316
    *** woman's reaction alert ***
    (since I couldn't tell if this topic was open to women too :-))
    
    I remember when my father started being attractive to other women.
    It was kind of amusing. He wasn't the sort who was wild and attractive
    in his 20's; he wasn't solid and settling down and attractive in
    his 30's; he wasn't a slick party-fun type attractive in his 40's;
    but his 50's were "his" decade. Suddenly women found his quietness
    and complements quite appealing. (naturally, most of these insights
    are extrapolation or hear-say; I wasn't around then)
    
    So the point of this ramble is that certain personalities are
    attractive to certain expectations, based on mutual chronological
    age (now, I wouldn't want to have to uphold this view in Pyscology
    Today or anything :-)).
    	Mez
46.3Sounds fairly reasonable.GENRAL::FRASHERMaster of NaughtThu Feb 05 1987 14:237
    RE .0
    I can handle all but the last one:
    
>        and suppress our biological urges.
    
    Boy, I wish I know what .1 had to say.  Oh well.

46.4And you thought only *penguin* lust was immoralINFACT::VALENZAWho ordered this?Fri Feb 06 1987 03:0617
    We don't have to suppress *all* of our biological urges--just the
    sexual ones.  Most women, for example, consider it acceptable for
    men to consume food.  Or at least most foods.  There are some foods
    that I would personally consider inacceptable for the common slug
    to eat, such as sushi, and I think most women feel the same way.
    
    Remember, if you feel lust for a woman, you are "objectifying" her,
    which is not the politically correct thing to do.  Jimmy Carter
    felt lust in his heart for women, and see what happened to him.
    If you must feel lust, direct it toward a woman's mind, not her body.
    With practice, you will find that talking to a woman about epistemology
    can be every bit as arousing as watching her take her clothes off.
    The key phrase here is "Don't objectify."
    
    Yeah, that's it.  That's the ticket!
          
    --Mike
46.6GENRAL::SURVILMother Goose & GrimmFri Feb 06 1987 13:335
    
    	Neah, neah, and he's married to Terry Garr, and ...ah...young
    Liz Taylor.....Thats it!
    
    Todd
46.7To set the record straightINFACT::VALENZAWho ordered this?Sat Feb 07 1987 00:0812
    Of course I didn't build this network!
    
    I invented networking!  Yeah, I designed the first VA...er...PDP
    ...er...computer.  Yeah, that's it!  I was in the White House, talking
    with...my wife, Morgan Fairchild, and...Albert Einstein, who was having
    trouble with a...relativity problem.  And I designed the first computer
    and President Roosevelt designated me a national hero!
    
    Glad to dispell any misinformation.
    
    --Mike
     
46.9oh, yeah!GENRAL::FRASHERAn opinion for any occasionTue Feb 10 1987 13:525
    re .7
    I remember that computer.  It was the one I worked on in '72.  50K
    vacuum tubes, consumed 15KW per hour.
    
    Spence