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Does the red-light blink around your sister or Mom? Put your female colleagues in the sister compartment of your brain.
by pnw_hazor 9y ago
Does the red-light blink around your sister or Mom?
Put your female colleagues in the sister compartment of your brain.
- bdamm 9y agoMaybe this is easier if you've had a sister. I never did. And I can't sit across the table from a skin-flashing admin assistant and think of her like my mom, who is in her 70s. It doesn't work.
- passive 9y agoThe fact that you use the term "skin-flashing" here is a little concerning. Perhaps it was just meant as a shorthand for attractive woman, because otherwise you've taken a woman's choice of dress and behaviour and made them part of your neurosis. Unless of course she is giving you the Basic Instinct treatment (is that too old a reference for this site?), in which case I'm entirely out of advice for you.
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- venning 9y agoThe Westermarck effect attempts to explain why that is not a simple mental adjustment. It's a theory, but it states "people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to sexual attraction." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect