Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread ss
On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 11:12:11 am Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: if your audience is composed entirely of rednecks, you wouldn't go around calling them rednecks. Ah - I see the logic. If your audience is composed of breasts you wouldn't go around referring to them as breasts? If you were a

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Divya Manian
On 10/3/09 10:18 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair Indian women too are often guilty of this - a least in my personal experience. I have found friends and collegues beginning to imagine that I am about to express lewd thoughs or tell a dirty joke when nothing of the sort is

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Sigh. After I spent the first few decades of my life learning how to talk to a woman's eyes instead of her boobs/bust/breasts, MUST you hijack an entire thread to the same subject? The original question, I believe, was why are there so few women on this list. Not why are there so few boobs on

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The 'wrist' seems almost completely replaced by the 'twitch the bottom of your tshirt down' gesture to avoid baring the midriff, but I digress. These gestures change over time, Like men might pass a hand over their hair, or glance down to see if their fly isn't accidentally open. These have

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Like men might pass a hand over their hair I begin to suspect this thread is a vile attack on me (considering I haven't HAD hair since 1996 or thereabouts)

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Amit Varma
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: The 'wrist' seems almost completely replaced by the 'twitch the bottom of your tshirt down' gesture to avoid baring the midriff, but I digress. These gestures change over time, Like men might pass a hand over

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Madhu Menon
Amit Varma wrote: Breasts and boobs are the same thing, last I checked. If you are a lover of breasts and want to see the funniest comedy clip involving the word breasts (not boobs or anything else), I implore you to watch the episode of the UK series Coupling titled The woman with two

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread ss
On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 12:08:25 pm J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: I begin to suspect this thread is a vile attack on me (considering I haven't HAD hair since 1996 or thereabouts) Tell me about hair. You should see my wedding video where I am brushing back non existent hair just because the camera

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-04 Thread Sruthi Krishnan
Started as software engineer (yes, can hear the groans). After 4.5 years decided to quit and joined a journalism school. Joined a daily paper as a reporter around a year ago. Now quit that because of health reasons (dont' get me started on that.) Which happened a week ago, so the name of this

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
This thread was SO entertaining on a Sunday morningthank goodness, everyone who knows me finds it usual to see me laughing at my laptop! I must mention that as an amateur naturalist, I am always going out (er, not, as in dating..God and Indian Morality forbid!!!... but going on wildlife

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote: Take up music again. This time as a career maybe. What kind of music? Appropriate name for a musician! Perhaps write stories no one will read. Or keep reading books and not give a damn. Just realised a small

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Sunday 04 October 2009 09:55 AM, ss wrote: Pranesh Prakash wrote, [on 10/3/2009 5:49 PM]: I'm just wondering about the distribution of Silk membership wrt gender. Exploring socio-psychology (whatever that means) on the lines of I will not talk about balls in front of women but will use

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Sunday 04 October 2009 09:07 AM, ss wrote: On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 8:11:18 am Deepa Mohan wrote: Pranesh, what brought on the query about the distaff side? Yes - what is your a-gender Pranesh? First off: that pun is truly inspired! As for the reason I asked, I could give either the long

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread ss
On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 7:58:09 pm Pranesh Prakash wrote: The revelation of the hitherto unrevealed: To be honest, I'd first typed Gender/sex on Silk.  Sex on Silk sounded like, well, sex on Silk. I apppreciate the honesty. And people felt most uneasy answering the question about sexual

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
2009/10/4 Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com: I implore you to watch the episode of the UK series Coupling titled The woman with two breasts. Coupling is available - all 4 seasons, some 25 or so episodes - on bittorrent. It's worth watching the whole thing. One of the funniest serials I've ever

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Lawnun
You all have piqued my interest again enough to draw me from my lurker recesses and comment (confirming Deepa's theory, in least insamuch as it applies to moi)... On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: In the Indian mind too - the pink elephant always lurks in the

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/4 Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com: I implore you to watch the episode of the UK series Coupling titled The woman with two breasts. Coupling is available - all 4 seasons, some 25 or so episodes - on

Re: [silk] Gender on Silk

2009-10-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Madhu Menon wrote: you to watch the episode of the UK series Coupling titled The woman with two breasts. Shadaim! Oops, meant to say Amen! ;-)

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-04 Thread Sruthi Krishnan
*I have found that the earning money part usually arrives as a result, and may not happen if it is a goal.* True. But it has to be somewhere in the process, by-product etc. All the I-would-love-to-do-things seem non-conducive to earning pots of the stuff. While slipping into these flights

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: Join the rest of humanity! If you think that Software Engineer travelling briskly and purposefully to his cubicle is not confused, think again! He is just at a different point in his confusion. Just FYI, some for some of