From: usenet@delete.this.baradel.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , David   
   Harmon  writes   
   >On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:51:58 +0100 in rec.arts.sf.misc, Helen Hall   
   > wrote,   
   >   
   >If a man invites a women to a pub or football game, it is entirely   
   >possible that he doesn't really care that much whether she accepts or   
   >declines.  He may discard the idea based merely on lack of sufficient   
   >enthusiasm.  That is far from "understood perfectly well", however.   
   >The same is not true when it comes to sex.  The breed of men who did   
   >not care about sex has gone extinct.   
   >   
   >Thus women send mixed messages, and men do not have the information   
   >to be able to interpret them.  We muddle through somehow, but if a   
   >woman wants to communicate with men, simple and direct is the rule.   
   >Do not complain when a man doesn't "take the hint."  Hints have been   
   >rendered useless.  Hints do not count.   
      
   The point of the research showed that these "mixed messages" were   
   perfectly clearly understood in other circumstances. Men had no   
   difficulty "taking the hint" *except* where sex was concerned. It's as   
   though a fog descends on the male brain rendering a man incapable of   
   normal social interaction as soon as the mere hint of a possibility of   
   sex is on the cards.   
      
   And yet again, you're trying to blame the woman for the crime   
   perpetrated on her.   
      
   Helen   
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