"Men struck dumb by beauty"

Started by neoteny, Dec 12, 2003, 03:13 AM

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nebulousone

#30
Dec 12, 2003, 11:05 AM
Bilbo, I misunderstood.

It is a franchise, one store.  Called Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.  They're the ones who started the whole iced mocha in a blender frenzy and their coffee and other stuff is divine.

I don't know how the women are, been a while since I've been in one.
i]Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.[/i]
~Abraham Lincoln

Daymar

#31
Dec 12, 2003, 11:05 AM
"but maybe I know more because I get distracted less."

Or maybe this study is just BS like so many others?

The study consisted of the test subjects looking at photos and men are notoriously more visually oriented then women. If the people doing this study had been thorough at all they would've put that into consideration. This is just another example of psychologists taking a tiny bit of info and making huge, wild assumptions.

The only assumption you can take from this is the men were distracted by the attractive women in the pictures. It's kind of obvious to see that when the men weren't all that interested in the unattractive women pictured. But instead they make the assumption that men can't think as well as women after viewing an attractive member of the opposite sex? Where the hell did that connection come from? Maybe they should try showing the men pictures of something else that would attract their attention and see what happens then. Or they should have real people walk in the room instead of using pictures.

If anything I'd guess that story only got printed because it makes men look stupid for not being able to think as well after seeing an attractive woman.

D

#32
Dec 12, 2003, 11:23 AM
Jen sent me a picture one time of her and her friends.  Now before I say this I want you to know that it was unintentional, but there was so much cleavage in the picture I became dizzy.  Plus I was going threw a phase of wanting redheads, so jen made me a little light headed.  Don't know about stupid as I'm usually dumb so how a scientist would figure it out I don't know.

Daymar

#33
Dec 12, 2003, 11:24 AM
Oh? How come I never get sent pictures?

NealGold

#34
Dec 12, 2003, 11:38 AM
GMK, let's throw in another genetic wrinkle into the visual test.

I'd like to see a control group of men given a complex task requiring significant teamwork and communication, told that the task was exceedingly important for X reason.  

While in the midst of tackling the task, parade a bevy of steamy babes past the VISUAL project drawing board and do a check for any guy who lifted his head from the board to view the cavalcade of gams and boobs.  My bet is that only guys who weren't vested in the project would even notice women were present.

Whatcha think of that variation on the test?
A man conscious of his strength, observes Nietzsche, need have no fear of women. It is only the man who finds himself utterly helpless in the face of feminine cajolery that must cry, "Get thee behind me, Satan!" and flee. The normal, healthy man...still keeps a level head. He is strong enough to weather the sexual storm. But the man who cannot do this, who experiences no normal reaction in the direction of guardedness and caution and reason, must either abandon himself utterly as a helpless slave to woman's instinct of race-preservation, and so become a bestial voluptuary, or avoid temptation altogether and so become a celibate." -- H.L. Mencken on Nietzsche's philosophy of women

Daymar

#35
Dec 12, 2003, 12:54 PM
It would depend on how important they thought their task was. But that reminds me of something that happened a few days ago. Someone walked into the room I was in and talked to me while I was typing something on the computer. I was so intent on what I was doing that I totally ignored them and I actually have no memory of them even coming in the room. The only reason I knew they had been in there is when I was done typing I looked over on the desk top and noticed a book sitting there. So I went and asked the person how the book got there and they told me they had come in and they were talking to me and I just ignored them. It was a she but not that it probobly would've mattered.

Bilbo

#36
Dec 12, 2003, 01:10 PM
Yes, I too would be interested in seeing the pic of Jen & friends.  I'll bet they all have wonderful...um.. smiles. :1blue1:
It is impossible to reason a man out of something he was never reasoned into in the first place- Swift

"The cardinal principle of judicial restraint--if it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more."

nebulousone

#37
Dec 12, 2003, 01:12 PM
I really have no idea what Dan's talking about.

:sm12:
i]Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.[/i]
~Abraham Lincoln

Daymar

#38
Dec 12, 2003, 01:20 PM
I think you're lying  :x I wanted to see your smiles too   :wink:  

No actually I would be kind of interested in pictures of people here if they have any and want to share.

Bilbo

#39
Dec 12, 2003, 01:23 PM
So...no red hair and cleavage?  :cry:
It is impossible to reason a man out of something he was never reasoned into in the first place- Swift

"The cardinal principle of judicial restraint--if it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more."

Galt

#40
Dec 12, 2003, 01:25 PM
I've usually been surprised by the few pictures I've seen of Internet babes on message boards - they are usually very good-looking.

Galt

#41
Dec 12, 2003, 01:27 PM
I've never seen private photos from women on the Ms. Boards, though - and I'm not entirely sure that I would want to.  From her Birkenstocks to her dyke mullet hairdo - I don't know if I'd want to see what's in between.

Daymar

#42
Dec 12, 2003, 01:29 PM
So there is a whole network of private messaging that's going on behind the scenes here?

nebulousone

#43
Dec 12, 2003, 01:32 PM
Quote from: "Bilbo"
So...no red hair and cleavage?  :cry:


Nope, I'm bald and flat chested.

Sorry.  8)
i]Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.[/i]
~Abraham Lincoln

nebulousone

#44
Dec 12, 2003, 01:33 PM
Quote from: "gmk1212"
So there is a whole network of private messaging that's going on behind the scenes here?


GMK some of us have been posting at the same board(s) for a few years now, so yeah, we email, PM and IM sometimes.
i]Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.[/i]
~Abraham Lincoln
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