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- From: bgarfink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (beth diane garfinkel)
- Subject: Re: Feminist=Equality? Errrr.... Nope.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:41:56 GMT
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- In <jay.37.727815640@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU> jay@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU (Jay Deuel) writes:
-
- >I remember an episode of Norther Exposure, where the doctor is invited by
- >Maggi to have sex (she wasn't drunk, but without sleep for 36 hours). She
- >was asleep by time he enters the bedroom, and does the "gentleman" thing by
- >leaving her untouched. Later on she becomes pissed off after finding out he
- >didn't do anything, because she doesn't feel sexy. THIS IS ONLY A MOVIE,
- >but it expresses a male's feeling of "damned if I do & damned if I don't"!
-
- You're leaving out the part that was really mean: that Maggie made it
- clear, after the non-existent event, that it was to be a one-time
- occurrence that noone was to know about, so he went ahead and let her
- think she had slept with him in revenge for the implied insult.
-
- Robin Warshaw gives a relevant piece of advice for this type of
- situation. Assume that "yes" means "yes," and "no" means "no." If you
- are getting mixed signals or are otherwise in doubt of the best way to
- behave, hang back, because if she doesn't know what she wants, you don't
- want to be with someone that neurotic in any case. Besides, having sex
- with a woman who is asleep is also legally considered rape.
-
- By the way, if you ever find out that you have annoyed or offended a
- woman by keeping your hands off her at such a time, the correct response
- is "Well, how about it?" or whatever variant thereof you feel to be
- appropriate. Even if she's not willing to commit herself right
- then and there, that should at least reassure her that you still find her
- desirable :)
-
- Beth
- --
- ". . . but if the will to walk is there, He is pleased with their
- stumbles." --C.S. Lewis, _The Screwtape Letters_
-