Not a lot of room for male-female interactions that might be merely friendly, funny, interesting or time-killing on this model. I suppose you mean something specific by 'checked out'? Is it a look? A way of speaking? Is all interaction at base sexual?
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If he says to her, "I find you so attractive!" she disarms this phrase of its sexual background; she attaches to the conversation and to the behavior of the speaker, the immediate meanings, which she imagines as objective qualities.
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The man who is speaking to her appears to her sincere and respectful as the table is round or square, as the wall coloring is blue or gray. The qualities thus attached to the person she is listening to are in this way fixed in a permanence like that of things,
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which is no other than the projection of the strict present of the qualities into the temporal flux. This is because she does not quite know what she wants. She is profoundly aware of the desire which she inspires, but the desire cruel and naked would humiliate and horrify her.
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Women have no idea what they want. What they want is completely obscure to them, because they are schizophrenics mandated to by the moon. If you want to understand women, study the moon.
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ha ha ha ha! Well, not much I can say in response to that. You, Sartre, bad faith, the moon. 'An interesting girl may very well be successful in pleasing, but just as she herself has surrendered her womanliness, so also the men whom she pleases are usually just as unmasculine'.
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