Report: Economically Disadvantaged Men More Skilled At Communicating Attraction To Wo

[boingo82]

With all the "I'd hit it!" comments going around lately, I couldn't help myself.

From the Onion, last Nov.

BOSTON?According to a Boston University study released Monday, men from lower-income backgrounds are significantly more skilled at communicating their attraction to women than their middle- and upper-class counterparts.

"Many people would assume that the relative dearth of educational opportunities available to men in lower economic strata would result in inferior communication skills," said Boston University social anthropologist Dr. Mary Schoen, co-author of the study. "To the contrary, our research finds that they are up to four times more adept at conveying their interest in women than men with higher incomes."

Lower-income men, Schoen said, have a variety of phrases at their disposal to clearly and concisely communicate their attraction to members of the opposite sex. Among them are, "Slow down so I can get a look at you," "Mmmm, you are lookin' fiiiine today," and "I wouldn't mind a piece-a dat."

"Cultures in which the written word is not stressed generally tend to develop a greater oral tradition," Schoen said. "Never before, however, has the propensity been placed in a socioeconomic context, specifically with regard to how certain demographic subsets are better able to articulate their desire to get with that hot little mama over there in the red dress."

The study found that 95 percent of men who earn less than $18,000 a year were able to loudly and publicly voice their approval of specific body parts on women. By contrast, a paltry 3 percent of men who earn more than $75,000 a year could do the same.

"Though they scored substantially higher in math and science aptitude, upper-class males were surprisingly inept at simply letting a coworker know her ass looked nice in a skirt," said Dr. Marybeth Clarke, Boston University sociologist and the study's co-author. "It's not that they didn't notice the ass. They simply were unable to convey the sentiment."

Even more remarkable, low-income men are often able to initiate communication with women they do not even know.

"It's one thing to be able to strike up a conversation with a friend or coworker," Clarke said, "but the challenge is that much greater when you're trying to talk to a stranger who's running to catch a train."

The study also found that the communication skills of economically disadvantaged men are virtually unaffected by context, remaining consistently high regardless of the race, class, or mood of the woman being approached.

"Whether the woman was black or white, rich or poor, cheerful or profoundly depressed, these men were consistently able to get across the message that they would enjoy engaging in intercourse with her," Clarke said. "Their requests to 'let me get up on it' or 'give me a little sugar, honey' were unfailingly clear, regardless of who the woman was or her emotional state at the time."

Lower-income men were also seven times more likely to ask women questions. Among the queries noted in the report: "Where you going all dressed up so sexy?," "Where did you get a pair of legs like that?," and "Hey, baby, wanna suck my root?"

Schoen said the idea for the study first came to her during the summer of 1998, when she was gathering data for an interdisciplinary research project on access to healthcare among the nation's poor. While studying admittance procedures at various hospitals in East Los Angeles, the south side of Chicago, and New York's Spanish Harlem, Schoen was impressed by the direct manner in which men in these communities expressed to her their admiration for the shape of her body.

"All I had to do was walk down the street to notice the discrepancy in communication proficiency between rich and poor males," Schoen said. "While well-to-do men would steal furtive glances at my chest, less well-off men would loudly and confidently state their opinion on the matter."

Schoen was not just struck by the directness of the poorer men's remarks, but by the "vast vocabulary" they employed in doing so.

"These men did not simply say, 'I like your breasts,'" Schoen said. "They used a vast array of terms: tits, jugs, knockers, knobs, headlights, titties, ta-tas, cans, hooters, boobs, boobies, bazooms, rack, mounds, maracas, milk cans, milk bags, yabbos, fun bags, slappies, coconuts, jabungos, melons. The full list, which is included in the report, is nine pages long."

Schoen said she and her colleagues are "heartened" by the findings.

"The nation's economically disadvantaged males face many problems. Fortunately, an inability to express themselves to attractive young women in public is not among them," Schoen said. "It is up to all of us to encourage these men to develop their skills even further, that their voice might rise, loud and proud, from car windows and construction sites all across the nation."

[taranaki]

Always good for a chuckle,the Onion...........


Please don't be offended if we display the baser instincts occasionally.... It's much easier to misbehave on the net than it is in the real world,but hey,at least it's honest. Remember,all men are pigs,but some are more cunning pigs than others.

[darkness]

Originally posted by taranaki
Remember,all men are pigs,but some are more cunning pigs than others.

A none truer word was ever spoken

[TerminalVelocity]

All I gotta say is







































I'd hit it

[YogsVR4]

Thats pretty good

[Damien]

Originally posted by taranaki
Always good for a chuckle,the Onion...........


Please don't be offended if we display the baser instincts occasionally.... It's much easier to misbehave on the net than it is in the real world,but hey,at least it's honest. Remember,all men are pigs,but some are more cunning pigs than others.

I think it's easier to do in person becuase you can't be banned!!!

Terminal is back posting! Not back, just back posting here!

[DMC12]

The article was very entertaining. Thank you Boingo

One thing the article conveniently "leaves out" is that the more educated men may not use cat-calls and verbalize their lust because they are more proper & have manners! Manners, people! Remember those?

I hope you weren't trying to imply that AF posters are "economically disadvantaged" and therefore less intelligent... did you? That would be mean :alien:

[darkness]

Maybe I need to be in a lower income bracket so I can actually say those thing in public

[Spec2 Girl]

Men!


:angel: :hehehe:

[taranaki]

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
Men!


:angel: :hehehe:

Go on,blame us....men have only two faults...everything they say,and everything they do.

:frog:

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by taranaki
Go on,blame us....men have only two faults...everything they say,and everything they do.

:frog:

Well I wouldn't say everything :angel:

[boingo82]

Originally posted by DMC12
...
One thing the article conveniently "leaves out" is that the more educated men may not use cat-calls and verbalize their lust because they are more proper & have manners! Manners, people! Remember those? ...

That was the point.

Originally posted by DMC12
...I hope you weren't trying to imply that AF posters are "economically disadvantaged" and therefore less intelligent... did you? That would be mean :alien:

:angel:

[replicant_008]

From my humble perspective this whole thread depends on your definition of the word 'effective.'

Recently one of my female friends remarked that she had accompanied (against her better judgement) a friend to the Loaded Hog (the irony!) in Auckland. Her friend had recently returned from overseas and wanted to make a nostalgic visit to the 'Hog which is a large bar on the Viaduct Waterfront.

Now the drunken, leery mob were very effective at communicating with these two very attractive ladies their desire to fornicate. Unfortunately, grabbing their respective butts wasn't a particularly clever to proceed and resulted in one of the mob getting a swift retort.

With her knee...

With her knee in a particularly vulnerable place of the male anatomy - one that the bloke had intended for other use but given the swiftness and placement of the 'retort' probably would have been out of action for some time...

The moral of the story... I dunno but I always figured being a pig will get you to feed first at the trough... but I'd rather be picking from the menu from the some well presented meals a la carte myself..

[DMC12]

Originally posted by replicant_008
but I'd rather be picking from the menu from the some well presented meals a la carte myself..

Let me know where this cart is my friend!

Where I live the selection is, um, "greasy" food

[taranaki]

Originally posted by replicant_008
... but I'd rather be picking from the menu from the some well presented meals a la carte myself..

I am the kind of lucky guy who doesn't even get to see the menu...