Walking back from lunch just now, I fell in behind a quite attractive woman. After fully appreciating the view, I decided to check out the reactions of the oncoming men. Over the next 2 blocks of crowded lunchtime downtown Chicago sidewalks, not one man coming towards us failed to check her out. (Disclaimer, I assume some of the guys with shades were doing it discreetly without turning their heads.) The majority of guys, with or without sunglasses, made no bones about it, clearly turning their heads to follow her progress as she approached, and in a few cases, after she passed. The most amusing were the guys who were walking with women, and had to try to check her out on the sly. I think one guy nearly sprained an eyeball.
No judgment here as to whether or not men should look at women to what extent. Merely a comment upon my observations. Next time you find yourself walking behind a good looking woman, check out the oncoming men for a good laugh. Men are such predictable pigs. What a hoot!
I moved to from Holland to Edinburgh, Scotland about a year ago, together with a Dutch friend of mine. One day we were walking the streets having our lunch together with an (English) colleague of ours. On comes a stunningly beautiful woman. She was absolutely gorgeous, but not far behind her was probably the most beautiful man I’ve had ever seen.
I usually eye the men I see on the streets rather carefully, not being out of the closet amongst colleagues yet. My friend says to me “quite a beautiful sight, huh?” (in Dutch), obviously talking about the woman. I reply (also in Dutch), “He sure is”. “Huh?” my friend says and looks back to the guy who just passed us. On which our colleague, who ofcourse did not understand what we were talking about, says to my friend: “Hey, I did not know you were into guys.”
From that moment on, my friend gets teased of being gay, while I walk around as if nothing happened. 'Spose you better be careful when you’re eyeing people
Actually, I do this exact thing. (Check out ogling men, that is.)
Shortly after I got engaged, I decided it would be rude to do the whole neck-craning bit to check out hot babes on the street. Very quickly, I hit on the notion of watching the men instead. And yes, Dinsdale, you’re right, it’s very amusing.
Now I do it all the time, just 'cause it’s so funny – whether or not my wife’s with me.
HAHAHA… This is hilarious. I was just thinking about this on the way back in from my smoke break.
I work for the USAF, and in my building we have a lot of civilian contractors. I saw this absolutely gorgeous woman out in the smoke pit. She was aparrently a new hire, 'cause I’ve never seen her before. I would’ve noticed her…
Anyway, I just watched an entire group of soldiers who were out taking their smoke-breaks all turn and make some very careful remarks, yet they were obviously of a sexual nature. It was so funny.
Hey… I guess I looked too. (Read: Ogled) But I’m hopelessly in love with my SO, and therefore I just admire beauty where I see it, and stop there. No one holds a candle to my SO.
Anyway, IMHO, if we didn’t look at one another, we’d never see each other. But, I agree, some people’s lack of gentlemanly or lady-like behavior is hilarious.
About a year or so ago, my SO actually sprained his ankle while trying to ogle some good looking woman on the street. Boy, was it fun listening to him explain just how he hurt himself… if it wasn’t so funny I might have been mad!
I would rather he tell me that he is checking them out than hide stuff from me. When it is hidden it seems like there is more to hide, but if it is just “nice ____” it is open and okay. I actually have pointed out really gorgeous women to him.
If you really want a good laugh though walk ust behind a couple of guys to hear their comments! HA!
I was just curious if any of you men/women will point out a gorgeous man/woman to your SO. I know I do it. Me and the hubby will be walking somewhere and I’ll say “did you see those knockers on that girl?” Watching him trip over himself trying to look around to find that girl is pretty funny. He has done it to me too. He will make a comment about some guy with muscles and long hair that he sees, and watches me practically break my neck looking around to see where the guy is.
Back in college we had a “caught looking” pool. It was kind of like the masturbation episode on Seinfeld, but we did it before the episode. It was started in honor of my friend Brian who was the king of making it too obvious and getting a dirty look from a girl at least once every trip to town. I was the third one left in, but got caught looking by a mirrored pillor in a mall, sigh.
He used to try & tell me that he didn’t see the lady until I pointed her out, then try to run some line of BS about how he never would have noticed her anyway, because my dazzling beauty had blinded him.
:::retching noises:::
He eventually came to understand that I am not offended by looking. Thank Goddess, because I was getting really tired of him trying to look without me noticing. He can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone try & check out a chick while he’s in motion. He’s walked to more walls than Charlie Chaplin. Then he tries to blame it on me or our daughter “getting in his way.” Oh please. I saw her too, okay? Just admit it! The blood rushed out of your head and your center of gravity shifted! Sheesh!
Darn it, BlackKnight, you beat me to it. I was just going to mention that.
Of course, by and large, men are predictable pigs. But also, generally speaking, we don’t enjoy having attention drawn to this.
as for the topic, Ruffian and I routinely check out members of either sex and don’t hesitate to point them out to the other. Though I’m hoping we’re both pretty sly about it.
I had a terrible realization recently about this, though. When I first got contacts I remarked to a friend how great it was to be able to see this well all the time (up till this point I only wore my glasses in class) and I wondered if everybody else walking around could see as well as I now could. It was great. I could see interesting stuff and check out girls from a long way away. But then I started thinking… since my vision was so bad w/o contacts, I must have had to look for quite a while before a woman would come into focus. I never thought about it, but I must have been really obvious to those who could see like regular humans.
I’m sure I must have caused some “Why is that boy next to you squinting at me?” type of comments.
