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- From: orc@sybase.com (Orc)
- Subject: Re: Why I read a.s.a.r. (was: For Non-Abused Skeptics)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.063057.23362@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:30:57 GMT
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- In article <vashti.727614720@concave> vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin) writes:
- >In <1993Jan19.135641.20454@midway.uchicago.edu> orc@sybase.com (Orc) writes:
- >> [my usual incoherent babbling, this time involving pdaing]
- >
- >I find the reason why I get quite uncomfortable in the presence of
- >massive pdaing (or even not so massive) is I feel curious and want to
- >watch (I guess this is called voyeurism), but there seem to be
- >conventions that say this is not done;
-
- Depends on the people, too. I would guess, based on experience
- with some of the more, ahem, public demonstrations that were given
- in Edinburgh last year, that a goodly portion of the uk.bi
- party-attending crowd wouldn't even notice the audience (after
- having a beergarden's worth of college students become awed
- spectators of a spectacularly public display indeed, well, one or
- two people just doesn't do it.)
-
-
- > I could well imagine myself watching
- >for a while, seeing the dynamics, understanding what I am feeling,
- >learning how to decline unwanted affection subtly and then deciding to
- >get involved (if this is an option; there is always this nagging worry
- >that I won't be welcome) or maybe not. But I don't know if the space
- >exists for this.
-
- Watching for a while and then deciding to (or not to) get
- involved seems to be pretty normal behavior for a lot of people,
- myself included. (Okay, so I've become a little more blatant
- recently, but in any N-way collections (where N is > 3) my
- reactions are still somewhat more hesitant...)
-
- If you can figure out how to subtly decline unwanted affection,
- lemme know. I've been told that I'm good at defusing affectionate
- situations in the pastm, but it seems like the way I defuse those
- situations involves the moral equivalent of a nuclear weapon,
- which, even for me, isn't extraordinarily subtle.
-
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ Who never had to deal with the T-word.
- \/
-