LadyEllen -> RE: Would you compete for a woman? (2/8/2007 12:58:58 AM)
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Its a TV show. In the real world though, men do compete for women's attentions - even in our office where everyone is either married or involved, I watch it happening. There's no chance of any sex (its quite a small office), but I see how the guys jockey for position with one another to assume "alpha male" status, and how damned different they are to the women; seemingly at least, trying to impress. Mind you, similar happens from the other side, but in a different way. I dont think it means anyone is desperate so much, its just natural human interaction. We had an incident a while back, when one of the guys (who basically has no chance whatever anyway, on account of being unpleasant as well as ugly), was shouting at one of the women over some error she'd made - an understandable error, given the intricacies of operating trucks and trailers 24/7. Two of the guys wanted to punch him out over that, in their own words, for treating her that way. I will place any bet you might like now, that had it been a guy being bawled out, there would have been snickering rather than a will to intervene and defend a woman. Add into such interactions the possibility of reproduction, and I think we'd really see the gloves off in the whole competition thing - on both sides. E
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