# Girl-watching **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051 "2013-07-20T18:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/21 "2013-07-21T15:18:49Z")
I always look forward to jury duty in downtown Los Angeles in the summer time. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/22 "2013-07-21T15:21:05Z")
It’s also as [good as exercise](http://books.google.com/books?id=EfADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/23 "2013-07-21T15:24:15Z")
Walking through downtown Toronto on a perfect summer day yesterday… the number of attractive women in the streets was truly mind-boggling. I’ve learned through many years of experience that expressing interest in a woman leads to bad, embarrassing situations, so in general I try not to appear interested in women. I typically let my attention skate past without changing expression, or look out the window of the bus at buildings, or at my phone, or look up the street for an approaching streetcar. I went to see a movie with my friend (got a pass for Christmas), and after we exited the food court where we’d met and eaten, and went around the political march in the street, we went down into the subway station. Inside, I just concentrated on getting through the subway turnstile without bashing my computer too hard or getting anything caught. Then my friend said that a woman going the other way had given me a beautiful smile. I had no idea. I didn’t even see her at all. I was aware of people moving nearby, but only as blurs in my peripheral vision. I had to ask him twice, I was so incredulous. Dammit. The rare time a woman actually sees me, and I’m totally unaware. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/24 "2013-07-21T15:38:29Z")
I find it frustrating more than anything. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/25 "2013-07-21T15:39:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I’ve learned through many years of experience that expressing interest in a woman leads to bad, embarrassing situations, so in general I try not to appear interested in women. I typically let my attention skate past without changing expression, or look out the window of the bus at buildings, or at my phone, or look up the street for an approaching streetcar. Whenever you get caught looking just look her in the eyes and smile. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/26 "2013-07-21T16:25:12Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > The ones in the skin tight short shorts? > With the hot pink nails that match their hot pink lipstick? > Walking around in heels taller than their ankles? > Yeah, I can just imagine how much they hate being looked at. 😑 Especially when she’s not skinny, but is, say, Size 12 and has curves and isn’t afraid to flaunt them! And doesn’t tie a sweater around her waist to hide her derrière the way so many American women do. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/27 "2013-07-21T17:04:05Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Hmm… I was probably around then. Maybe you saw me. 😛 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/28 "2013-07-21T21:09:22Z")
> [@Tracijo67](#): > > I am a woman, and even I can’t understand the concept of donning a string bikini and then expecting not to be ogled. > [@aNewLeaf](#): > > The ones in the skin tight short shorts? > With the hot pink nails that match their hot pink lipstick? > Walking around in heels taller than their ankles? > > Yeah, I can just imagine how much they hate being looked at. 😑 I’ve been posting here since 2003 and Now you tell me…? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/29 "2013-07-22T02:13:53Z")
When I get caught ogling some nice breasts, I just say “I wasn’t staring at your boobs; I was looking into your heart!”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/30 "2013-07-22T02:44:17Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > . . . or, if you prefer, the act of admiring whichever attractive women happen to be in your vicinity [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/raJWuz7qQVc/hqdefault.jpg ""I'm A Girl Watcher" The O'Kaysons 1960s") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc) > [@ducati](#): > > When I get caught ogling some nice breasts, I just say “I wasn’t staring at your boobs; I was looking into your heart!”😃 [![](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7667845888/h26982664/) ](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7667845888/h26982664/) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/31 "2013-07-22T14:34:01Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Jolly ole England? A Canadian heat wave? Please. > > Scottsdale, AZ FTW You have to experience 93 degrees and 80% humidity to appreciate it. You just drip with sweat and there is little evaporation. Also, far fewer homes are air-conditioned. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/32 "2013-07-22T16:23:56Z")
The Underground isn’t air conditioned either. Nor are any of the trains. It must have been 100 degrees (sorry, 38) on the one I rode today. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/33 "2013-07-22T19:44:53Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Don’t women universally _hate_ this? I thought that this was what that whole “Break The Gaze” movement was all about. What movement is this? A little googling didn’t enlighten me. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/34 "2013-07-23T21:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=Neidhart;16494336This pastime has the rather miraculous quality that, no matter how much I do it, it never gets boring or any less pleasurable than it was at age 14; a quality it shares with no other activity on the planet Earth.[/QUOTE] I see where you’re going but there is another, sometimes related activity most guys start before the age of 14 which also meets that criteria. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/35 "2013-07-24T03:33:47Z")
I live in Thailand. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/36 "2013-07-24T14:26:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I see where you’re going but there is another, sometimes related activity most guys start before the age of 14 which also meets that criteria. Just don’t combine the two in public, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/37 "2013-07-24T14:39:00Z")
> [@Glazer](#): > > Girl watchin’ only gets better with age. The young girls look as good as they ever did. But the older girls start lookin’ a whole lot better. Now-a-days I see a pretty young thing and find myself wondering what her mom looks like. In much of Europe, you’d probably be disappointed. It seems to be a law of Mediterranean countries that women only come in two varieties: tall, slender, leggy, dusky sirens, and stout, dumpy, moustachioed mammas. I believe that some time in their early thirties, the former are rounded up and spirited away in the dead of night and replaced silently with the latter. It is the only possible explanation. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/38 "2013-07-24T14:47:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I live in Thailand. 'Nuff said. For the win.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/39 "2013-07-24T14:53:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > For the win.😃 Watch out for those big Adam’s apples though 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051/40 "2013-07-24T15:08:27Z")
The song _Standin’ on the Corner_, is all about girl-watching. It contains the line: _“Brother you can’t go to jail for what you’re thinkin’…”_ I’m not sure this is true anymore, especially on college campuses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-watching/664051.md?page=3)