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Why Men Can't – and Shouldn't – Stop Staring at Women
The Globe and Mail ^ | Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 | Ian Brown

Posted on 03/25/2012 11:23:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Before we discuss why it is men can't and shouldn't stop looking at women in the street, I'd like to explain about the girl in the miniskirt on the bicycle.

It was the first of the warm spring days that inflated Toronto this week. I was on my way to work on my bicycle. Two blocks from my house, I turned right and found myself 10 feet behind a young woman.

I use the word “behind” hesitantly.

She might have been 20. I am 58. She had long blond hair, and was wearing a short putty-coloured jacket, nude hose – I didn't think anyone wore nude hose any more – and a white miniskirt, trim but straining, tucked primly beneath her.

My first sight of her felt like a light blow to the chest. Her body held my interest, but so did her decision to wear a miniskirt on a bike, along with her youth, her loveliness, even the fleetingness of the six blocks I kept her company – she turned right, and she was gone. We owed each other nothing.

The inevitable backwash of guilt arrived, as all men know it does. I have a daughter her age. I am married but spent several minutes gazing at a pretty girl's backside. I could hear the charges: objectifier, perv, pig, man.

But it was such a beautiful day. And so I decided to spend the rest of it cruising the city, investigating the famous male gaze, to find out just how ashamed we lads ought to feel. These days, with women charging so fast past us, we're happy to feel anything.

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Details that catch my attention: lively calves, French blue puff skirts with white polka dots, red shoes, dark skin, olive skin, pale skin, lips (various shapes), curly hair

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TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: lazwouldhitit; lazwouldlook; lazwouldstareatit
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To: mamelukesabre

It’s called Vitaman D.


41 posted on 03/26/2012 6:06:38 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: nickcarraway
I have absolutely no idea what this guy is talking about ...


42 posted on 03/26/2012 6:07:52 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: petercooper
Ok I am gonna be 48 this summer but my motto is I will be a dirty old man until I am a dead old man. These photos got my heart pumping better than a strong cup of coffee.

I want one of these beauties around the house, Can I place a mail-order?

43 posted on 03/26/2012 6:15:21 AM PDT by SledgeCS (I will vote for Obama when he says "The F'ing MUSLIMS attacked the USA and are the enemy")
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To: petercooper

Thank you, and good morning!


44 posted on 03/26/2012 7:16:56 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: petercooper

Wow! You have heaped my plate to overflowing. That is one gorgeous girl!

However, that’s just a digital image on a computer screen. My wife is real, good-looking, and close by. She’s going to have to fill in the slack. Now if you’ll excuse me.....


45 posted on 03/26/2012 7:26:09 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: petercooper

Wow! You have heaped my plate to overflowing. That is one gorgeous girl!

However, that’s just a digital image on a computer screen. My wife is real, good-looking, and close by. She’s going to have to fill in the slack. Now if you’ll excuse me.....


46 posted on 03/26/2012 7:26:51 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: nickcarraway

“When they saw her, each man’s knees smote together. Each desired to lay with her”....Homer from the ODDESSEY, when the suitors of Penelope saw her.


47 posted on 03/26/2012 7:31:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mamelukesabre

***There’s more to it than just pretty girls wearing less clothes. ***

A beautiful girl does not have to wear less clothes to look beautiful (but it helps). I am in love with some of the stunning beauties drawn by Charles Dana Gibson back in the early 1900s.


48 posted on 03/26/2012 7:57:35 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: petercooper
And now for something totaly different:


49 posted on 03/26/2012 8:04:29 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: petercooper
And now for something totaly different:


50 posted on 03/26/2012 8:06:52 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: petercooper

Great face, eyes, hair, smile; nice figure, great gams, short skirt and hi-heels!

You’re killing me man.. You killing me. :-))


51 posted on 03/26/2012 8:21:31 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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52 posted on 03/26/2012 8:51:04 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: NCC-1701
And now for something totaly different:

[CENSORED]

You should be banned for that appalling and despicable post.

Somebody get the eye bleach.
53 posted on 03/26/2012 8:51:16 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: trailhkr1

For some reason I can’t breath right.


54 posted on 03/26/2012 8:52:57 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: M1903A1

Sorry ‘bout that. Someone always comes along and ruins a perfectly good thread like this one with THAT picture. Looks like I drew the short straw today. Hope that never hapeens again. It hurt to post THAT pic.


55 posted on 03/26/2012 9:04:06 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: Liberty Valance
I have absolutely no idea what this guy is talking about ...

...so here's a dock with a girl and a fish on it.

56 posted on 03/26/2012 9:43:46 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: Erasmus

Ha! Thanks.


57 posted on 03/26/2012 10:06:13 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: nickcarraway
Guilt? He felt bad about staring at a woman's butt?

What a complete and utterly gelded ninny.

Ladies... I am a fully functional male. While my outdated belief in a certain subset of Chivalry will keep me from being too much of a cad in your presence... Make no doubt that I am checking you out.

Constantly and without a shred of guilt.

58 posted on 03/26/2012 10:16:58 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: nickcarraway
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59 posted on 03/26/2012 10:57:29 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: mylife

Mrs. L and I have a deal. “I don’t care where you get the appetite, just make sure it comes home for dinner.”

It works for us.


60 posted on 03/26/2012 11:03:26 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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