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Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent
seattle-pk writes "Males are apparently clueless when it comes to interpreting sexual intent from females, according to a recent study (PDF) from Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Men were found commonly to perceive more sexual intent in women's behavior than women were intending to convey. (A campus survey showed that 68% of college females had an experience where a male mistook signs of friendliness for affection.) However, the study also shows that men were quite likely to misperceive sexual interest as friendliness. 'Rather than seeing the world through sex-colored glasses, men seemed just to have blurry vision of sorts, overall,' according to the article. If you're a male who ever mistook the meaning of a barista's smile, looks like you're not alone."
Is this from the same study group that found males like beer?
"She slapped me, that means she wants my bod!"
Table-ized A.I.
women have blurry behavior
I blame geof's speakers.
thanks for posting this info on /. we need all the education about the opposite sex that we need (never mind the mothers whose basements we hermits live in)
Things sure were simpler when we were monkeys.
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Why's this story in the "Humor" section? What's so funny about a 30-year old virgin?
Oh, wait..... HAW, HAW!
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
What a wonderful example of our tax dollars at work.
Anyone who's dated or flirted has dealt with women (I'm sure it works both ways) who feign sexual interest to achieve another outcome, or feigned disinterested friendliness when the opposite is true. I consider myself an expert as I've misread women in just about any way possible.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Does a restraining order mean she's playing hard to get?
Never been married?
The main reason I had a third child with my wife was the prospect of 18 months without PMS!
Begin with simple statements:
Put down the 20 sided dice and come have a drink with me.
Your guild can raid without you for a night, lets go see a movie.
We can make out while your program compiles.
I know you enjoy moderating that silly Slashdot forum, but we could be having sex right now!
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Me is sorry for poor engrish. You ar enco... ecnu... please tell me, when i is wrong.
Me is sorry for poor engrish. You ar enco... ecnu... please tell me, when i is wrong.
Years later I realized that a couple of women were hitting on me and being the idiot nerd that I am, I didn't "get it." DOH!!!
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
"It's that men from Mars, women from Venus thingy."
Actually they are both from Earth, but that bit of trivia is best kept to oneself if you want to gey laid.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
You forgot: let me put on my robe and wizard hat!
I've always wondered why my line, "are you ovulating?" never worked like I thought it would....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Au cointraire, mon frere, students are very representative of people who lie on questionares about sex
This study is not worth the e-paper its not written on. That goes for almost all other questinaires about sex too.
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Speaking entirely subjectively, my own sexual intent, as a woman, is like a ratchet with a very large reset button, with a mischievous monkey in attendance. The monkey keeps on pressing the reset button at random intervals. A man can interest me, and things can go very well right up until he says or does entirely the wrong thing (and don't ask me to define 'the wrong thing'). At this point, I completely lose interest and go back to being a nun. This is essentially why the man needs to spank the monkey.
They have talking realdolls now?
Harald
In conclusion, we're all idiots.
Obviously. You should be asking her to play Mario Kart.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Thanks!
I've always wondered what my wife meant by, "You, me, sex, NOW!"
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Always marry an ugly girl, that's the only kind. She'll never ever leave you, and if she does you won't mind. Let's not forget, ugly girls need lovin', too! But then again, discussing sex with women on slashdot is like discussing Ubuntu with your grandmother... neither party knows what the hell is going on...
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What? Playing Smash Bros drunk? What an idiotic idea! When you're drunk, your hand-eye coordination suffers. I mean, would you want to lose in Smash Bros? TO A GIRL?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's right! He should make this speech at all the pr0n forums! I've always had a little trouble interpreting the sexual intentions of the women there.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Way too much info to be remembered. Much simpler:
1. Pretend to agree with whatever nonsense she says
2. Don't give up before the goods are delivered
3. Goto 1
Maybe your advice is the best in the world but, goddamnit, I'm _not_ gonna take any how-to-score-with-chicks advice from /. !!
Don't you think that women sending ambiguous signals is a barrier to stop stupid men breeding? Now I'm sure people are going to pipe up at this point and say they are good at programming and math and so on. But as the bumper stickers says "If you're so smart why ain't you rich?". And in any case numeric skills are one kind of intelligence. Social skills are another. If you can't pass the social intelligence test, no kids for you, unless you have the numeric skills to make an load of money. I'm skeptical that men have that option these days though, since most women make enough money to support themselves independently.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
"I mean, would you want to lose in Smash Bros? TO A GIRL?"
If I got laid afterwards, YES.
Joey: Same kind of thing happened to me! Woman pizza-delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
Chandler: What? No, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
Joey: No! Nothing!
Chandler: You know what? We have to turn off the porn.
A women, who was a colleague, once sat on my lap and fed me my dinner... at a company function. Yet she had absolutely no sexual intention of any kind. Seven years after that event I finally got a date, and we're now married, so I was able to ask about the incident. She told me she didn't really know what she was thinking about, that she didn't find me particularly interesting at the time, and she didn't understand why her behavior was "taken out of context".
Huh???
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
This is another case of blaming the user for confusing interfaces,
and another case of blaming hardware for a software problem.
Are you hitting on me?
Don't do that, it will haunt you forever. You will feel so cheap afterwards, like a whore, like you traded your dignity for some cheap sex. I still can't play DDR without ... I mean, a friend of mine still can't play DDR...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
> When people from different cultures are communicating they may be extra careful to avoid ambiguity.
When we were in second grade - let's just say, "quite a while ago," and leave it at that - dating was initiated by writing a note to another person you liked along the lines of, "Do you love me? Yes No" The recipient circled one, gave the note back, and that was it: you were a couple. Or not. (I'm getting off topic, but there was this one girl who had this annoying habit of writing, "maybe." Grr...)
I think we could use something along those lines, today. You see a guy / girl you think you might like, and hand them a note saying: "Would you like to [have sex | develop a long-term relationship | hop in a large tub filled with whipped cream and Jell-O]? Yes No" They'd circle one, hand it back, and bada-bing, you'd know right away where you stood with that person.
It would certainly resolve some of the ambiguity. Unless they wrote "maybe."
Truth, Justice. Or the American Way.
Would you rather:
a) A woman who is honest about her lack of feelings for you
b) A sympathy bone.
0.3% Voted (a)
63.8% Voted (b)
8.4% asked if there was any other kind
3.2% commented that RealDolls don't have feelings
and
24.3% complained about the lack of CowboyNeil option.