Posted on 03/25/2012 11:23:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Before we discuss why it is men can't and shouldn't stop looking at women in the street, I'd like to explain about the girl in the miniskirt on the bicycle.
It was the first of the warm spring days that inflated Toronto this week. I was on my way to work on my bicycle. Two blocks from my house, I turned right and found myself 10 feet behind a young woman.
I use the word “behind” hesitantly.
She might have been 20. I am 58. She had long blond hair, and was wearing a short putty-coloured jacket, nude hose – I didn't think anyone wore nude hose any more – and a white miniskirt, trim but straining, tucked primly beneath her.
My first sight of her felt like a light blow to the chest. Her body held my interest, but so did her decision to wear a miniskirt on a bike, along with her youth, her loveliness, even the fleetingness of the six blocks I kept her company – she turned right, and she was gone. We owed each other nothing.
The inevitable backwash of guilt arrived, as all men know it does. I have a daughter her age. I am married but spent several minutes gazing at a pretty girl's backside. I could hear the charges: objectifier, perv, pig, man.
But it was such a beautiful day. And so I decided to spend the rest of it cruising the city, investigating the famous male gaze, to find out just how ashamed we lads ought to feel. These days, with women charging so fast past us, we're happy to feel anything.
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Details that catch my attention: lively calves, French blue puff skirts with white polka dots, red shoes, dark skin, olive skin, pale skin, lips (various shapes), curly hair
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Ian Brown has a keen eye.
I tell my wife a similar thing. -It’s not the looking at women that you should worry about... it’s if it were to stop.
ah, springtime...
There’s more to it than just pretty girls wearing less clothes. There’s more to it than just warmer air temps. I don’t know what it is. more minutes of sunlight? Something changes not only your brain, but also your body. It’s like a drug.
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Lol, men have always stared at pretty women......but, did you get a look at her face? snicker.
Springtime brings a feeling of renewal. I live for springtime each year.
I told my wife, “When I stop looking, then it’s time to get my glands checked.”
Ahhh the roving eye..
The bouncing breast..
Hardly a crime. A testament maybe, but not a crime.
As Rush Limbaugh said, I love the women's movement — especially when I'm walking behind it!
NO, not a crime or the human race would cease to be. Even women look.......but not at a ‘bouncing breast’ - unless one is ‘strange’, lol.
I tell my lovely spouse that the day I stop looking at pretty girls, she can bury me. I’m already dead. She still teases me about it though.
On that line, I can tell you that in my experience, a smile from a pretty young lady can take 10 years off your shoulders, stiffen your spine, put a snap in your step and pretty much make your day.
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
“...a smile from a pretty young lady can take 10 years off your shoulders...”
That happened to me once. Then she looked at my cute little kids and said “How adorable - are you their grandfather?”
Sigh....
Give the Leftists another two or three years in power and that will also change.
The last time someone called me a dirty old man. I thanked them. I may be getting old, but I’m not dead!
LOL... that one happens to all of us. Oh well...
The smile removed 10 years and the remark added 40.
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