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From the original post:
2008-06-12 13:47:04.0
Let's say you are walking around Waldon Books or Barnes & Noble. You are trying to find the perfect book...
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Posted: Jun 19, 08 5:12pm
French and English are different formats, and they're done all the time here, it just requires you to write it two different ways, and I'm sure you're up to the challenge (with help from all those teens that hang about). It shouldn't be hard, or expensive, for the publisher to print the two sides, and bind them that way.
I think the quick notes might be like the summaries of English Lit. books, they're read but not the actual books; pointing stuff out with symbols, and other stuff for the guys, unless in it's own book portion, might be a little too much like a "Dummies" book, and they have one on sex. That's why Perm's idea of a guy's, and a gal's, side appealed to me it was a bit different than other books on the market. But that's just my opinion, you have to do what works for you.
I'll have to play with it a little bit and see what falls out.
I don't really write, ya know? I take ideas, sit down at the keyboard, then let them tumble like pick-sticks. Sometimes they fall pretty cool, other times it looks like a monkey with a keyboard. lol
Posted: Jun 19, 08 6:40pm
When we're wearing dresses, especially modest ones, we feel more lady-like, so we (even if it's only unconsciously) carry ourselves in a more "lady-like" manner.
When I'm somewhere that I probably shouldn't be, I move as if I'm looking for an ass to kick, and people steer clear.
Point one: the reason for dress codes at work. Was on a committee to reinstute one back in the 90s and made the same point. And I was dressed for my litte skirmish as if I was living at Mass and was walking home as if I owned the sidewalk. Did all those little self-defense tricks but he was determined. Followed me for over a mile and half before he made his move on some neighbor's front porch (last stop before I had to cross a long park) where the residents refused to respond to my banging on the door.
Had to laugh about the posturing. I do it slightly differently. Had to take one of my employees home to a bad neighborhood at night. A PR 'tiny dancer' of a guy, he was in more danger than I was! *S* Used t just act like a tough piece of white trash. When I get lost in that neighborhood in daylight, I imagine myself in big pink rollers, a fluffy bathrobe and bedroom slippers, your basic scatter brained suburbanite. The locals look at me with "see that fool!" on their faces and it all works out. Pulling a crazy, as you did with the stalker on the bus, also works quite well.
I think what you really wanted to get across in both bits was that Writer should address presentation, not dress. What are the cues we give off without thinking and how are they read by the opposite sex. That would be an EXCELLENT topic. Boys don't read faces or body language as well as do girls and talking about what is for show and what it looks like when it is for real would be useful to both groups.
Posted: Jun 19, 08 9:55pm
I would say you should add a lot about the sexual dynamics between men and women (even if I am gay, I read a lot)... I understand from my latest copy of MS magazine (Winter 2008) that there is a dynamic, particularly among young people that promotes sexual pleasure for the male, but nothing but basic "readiness to please" for the female... like we've gone back in time or something.