From: usenet@delete.this.baradel.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message ,   
   Andrea Shepard  writes   
   >In  on 2008-08-20,   
   > James A  Donald  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Women do not say yes.  I find it very hard to believe   
   >> that you have ever said "yes" in actual words capable of   
   >> being notarized by a JP.  Women expect to have their   
   >> minds correctly read, get very irritated if their minds   
   >> are incorrectly read.  While mind reading is usually   
   >> very difficult, on this matter, mindreading is not hard   
   >> at all.   
   >>   
   So I suppose the thought of a woman plainly saying, "Do you want to go   
   ahead and have sex? How about next weekend?" would be completely   
   unbelievable? Well, just for the record, that's what I said once upon a   
   time to the man I'm still married to.   
      
   >> Asking verbally is construed as failure to mindread, and   
   >> pisses off women.  Waiting for consent that would be   
   >> obvious to a notary public is construed as fear, self   
   >> doubt, weakness, and inadequate social skills, which   
   >> pisses off women.   
      
   No, what pisses off women is having to fend off an octopus while they're   
   trying to get to know the chap as a person first and constantly being   
   pressured to go further and faster than they want.   
      
   >It's like you live on some other planet almost but not quite entirely   
   >unlike Earth.   
   >   
   I know. I do wonder how he manages to communicate with us here in this   
   universe. The various Usenets must link up in mysterious   
   interdimensional ways.   
      
   Helen   
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