Women Flirt Subconsciously?

	posted by Scott on Monday February 19, @11:55AM from the news dept.
	An article from the Sydney Morning Herald discusses a study which showed that women tend to use flirting techniques when meeting a male stranger, and will not give any rejection signals until she has assessed him fully. I found this interesting because men are often blamed for misreading a woman's body language, and this suggests that there is good reason for it - because she will in fact use courtship signals from the start. I wouldn't read too much into the article, though - I'm not aware of too many other studies like this one.

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My university has a name for this behavior (Score:1) by Mars on Friday February 23, @04:47PM EST (#1) (User #73 Info) My university has a name for this behavior. It's called sexual harassment. Generally speaking, the initial subconscious flirting that women engage in when then encounter a man for the first time, say in a work environment, constitutes inappropriate sexual behavior and contributes to a hostile work environment. Since a man's behavior can be predicted from the woman's but not conversely, the woman's subconscious flirting is clearly manipulative and therefore the principle of zero tolerance should be strictly enforced. :-) ;-) It strikes me that the flip side of feminist antagonism towards science, which is purportedly a patriarchal construct, is the fear that it will expose the power that women frequently deny they have.

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