<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Testify, sister!<br><br>I recently had several straight guys cringing when I was discussing with a friend how a straight man's IQ drops at least 20 points if they even think about boobs.<br><br>And not one of them could refute what I was saying.<br><br><br>- Reverend Mik McAllister<hr><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/5/13, Naomi Most <i><pnaomi@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">It's often not so much a compliment as it is an admission of (#1) the remarking person's lack of world experience or (#2) a man's delight that there's a woman in his subculture, presumably someone he can hit on.  #2 often entails #1. </span><br>
<div id="yiv1911485180"><div class="yiv1911485180gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv1911485180gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1911485180gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I always kinda wondered why I cringe when someone is astonishedly pleased that as a woman I [code|weld|CAD|etc].  That ought to be a compliment, right?  Excellent discussion here.  Go Sci-Am!<br>

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Subject:        Some interesting thoughts on "benevolent sexism"<br>
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Lots of really good thoughts here, esp. comparing obituaries and the<br>
response to "I fucking love science" revealing her gender:<br>
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