h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah, not all men are b*****d. Most are nice friendly guys but we all knows what happens to them.

*nods sagely*

I think I misplaced an s there.

Don't worry!


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oh-look there it is (gestures upwards!)

Didn't say all men were b*****ds, just that going by the backlog you can't claim that you aren't sex-obsessed

I can take it or leave it.
Like I said, there's a difference between being a sex degenerate and being bawdy.
Scrape away the testosterone and you'll see that most of the s*** men come out with is fairly hollowed and not intended as being offensive.

I'm not offended, by this conversation anyway! You just can't complain that women think you are sex-obsessed when you've got to post 246 and still talking about the merits of various peoples tits

Anyway, I'll leave you alone to get back to discussing (oYo)

Okay, I might be sex obsessed. But what I meant was that if women don't want us to look at their breasts, stop trying to draw attention to them. Wear turtlenecks instead of low cut dresses then.

whatever.

Not you Xan.

Have I upset you somehow a1mtw?

Not getting into that arguement with you again Xan (turtle necks are too hot in summer though)

Just tell your fellow women to stop complaining. Guys like breasts. So if you show them off they will stare. If you don't want them to, leave the push up bra at home.

Kelli This conversation was started but one of you. We are merely giving our opinionson it. So its unfair to say that we are obsessed with anything

*standing behind Flanker*
Yeah! Tell 'em MAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Bawdy? Is that like, being tarty in a 1780's kinda way?

By the way, the firs three pages has a lot of people repeating the buttock-like theory, which doesn't really answer anything as it leaves two questions unanswered:

- why don't men obsess about women's behinds as well?
- why would they anyway, as they have no more to do with innate fertility than breasts?

Incidentally, in other species breasts are also sexual signifiers but in a different way: chimps have saggy breasts but are apparently very sexy to other chimps. I guess the round breast (and the curve, generally) is a good signifier for femaleness, and because humans have an unusually long infancy the provision of milk becomes proportionately more important. Of course then you get on to long discussions of milkmaids, rolling in the hay and so on. And why not.

I don't think men necessarily fixate on breasts as much as is generally assumed ... a pair of disembodied breasts is not particularly alluring, unless you're Jeffrey Dahmer. On the other hand, a well-formed and proportionate pair of breasts is usually a prominent part of the anatomy of a woman. Other signifiers -- slightly fuller lips, smaller chins, wide hips (which apparently make for biomechanically inefficient walking, aka "the swing") and so on are all important but less obvious.

Kelli, you're on a diet. Imagine you have been living off crackers and water for three months. And you're standing there talking to someone who in their hands are holding a silver platter filled with all sorts of delicious fattening cakes. Would you also bee looking at their eyes while talking to them? And how would you feel if they then complained that you were obsessed about food, and didn't think about anything else?

Actually, I *am* obsessed about bass guitars. I remember helping this drunk girl back to her room (she was wearing stupid, i.e. 6"-heeled, shoes and couldn't walk) and she was making all sorts of passes at me and then I noticed she had a bass guitar, and beelined at it. She said I should be in a band, which at the time was probably a pretty good indicator of no musical taste.

*- why don't men obsess about women's behinds as well?
- why would they anyway, as they have no more to do with innate fertility than breasts?*

Err.... I do. I'm much more likely to be caught checking out a girl's behind, than her chest. Each to their own, I guess.....