At 11:18 PM 2001-04-01 -0400, you wrote:
>Seeing as I know a lot of people (myself included) don't read
>Slashdot on anything approaching a regular basis, I was wondering
>if anyone had anything to say about:
>
>http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
Well, I quite enjoyed it. He's a good speaker, and I got quite a chuckle
out of it all.
I worried, however, about the suggestion about coming up to a woman in an
elevator, looking her in the eye, and saying "You're very pretty". Sure,
it's not *really* threatening behaviour, but it's unusual behaviour, and I
imagine many women would freak if someone said something like that to them
while they're trapped in a small, soundproof, metal box. :P (It's a sad
commentary that we've been trained to view such things with a dose of
nervousness, but that's the way it is, and I'm surprised that something
like that made it past proofreading.). It's a fine thing to suggest in an
open space with escape routes, but definitely not in an enclosed space!
Anyhow, what I loved about the article was that it's basically the same
advice you get in women's magazines. That's what really amused me. ESR
could have written it for Cosmopolitan or Glamour with only slight pronoun
changes, and probably could have written it for Stuff or GQ other men's
magazines. (I've read enough of both that I've got a pretty good sense of
the type of advice that's in them. I enjoy trash lit when I've got spare
time. Better than TV since I can read it outdoors!)
I mean, here we have a "free thinker" who's fairly proud of his
non-mainstream views... writing exactly the same advice you could find on
any magazine stand. :)
Of course, this starts to say sad things about the dating population when
even someone intelligent and atypical has to give the same advice as
everyone else...
Terri
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