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 become instinctive, somehow ------Original Message------ From: Divya Manian Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Gender on Silk Sent: Oct 4, 2009 11:53 On 10/3/09 10:18 PM, "ss" <[email protected]> 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 likely. And of course the ubiquitous and unconscious so called "wrist" > sign" where the woman brings her hand up to her face in an ostensibly > needless gesture that is actually intended to cover a bare neck and imaginary > cleavage from prying eyes. But here Indian women have a pallu/dupatta that > they pull across the area when they feel that the pink elephant has squares > on his mind. > I am guilty of this as well. I do the pallu/hand cover/other methods since any (un)intentional display of the cleavage is considered "slutty" and a desperate measure to seduce a male within 4 feet perimeter. -- srs (blackberry)
