>>>>A woman’s body temperature varies throughout the month and therefore what may be comfortable to one woman may be uncomfortable for another.
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>>>LOL! Coming from a man, you gotta lotta guts with this kind of reply back to a woman, no matter how truthful it may be. < rbg >
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>>Mark;
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>>Perhaps it is a matter of reality and when one learns to understand and respect any differences between individuals we will improve our environment. An understanding of the needs of others is essential in my opinion and people should be treated with dignity. I have been fortunate in my career that I have been able to recognize the needs of others and been allowed to assist supporting those needs.
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>>It is easy to make fun of others for whatever reason and in my opinion very childish. I am thankful that I had a grandfather who raised me to respect everyone. Whenever I have encountered anyone who has been disrespectful of others I have and will continue to take whatever action is appropriate. I have been doing this for many years and long before laws required it.
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>>It is amazing to me that we require laws concerning how to treat others and what can and cannot be said. Perhaps it is simply a matter of how one is brought up and interacts with others.
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>Either I am missing your point back to me or you missed mine altogether. If I had said this where I work, I would more likely to be chastised than understood. I was not making fun of anyone nor being disrespectful. I have respect for those who have earned it, and for the most part, I give the benefit of the doubt to those I do not know or have just met. How you were raised has zip to do with how others think or interpret what you say versus what your intent was. There are those that try to find sexism, racism, bigotry, etc., in anything that is said. That is the real shame of these days of PC-ness.
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>As a Dad to a son and daughter, I full well know the differences between behaviours between these two and neither of them learned these traits and behaviours from us or anyone else. They were definitely born that way.

Mark;

I understood your point and agree with you about how others will interpret what someone says. The Internet only compounds the issues discussed and basic communications as well. One thing I have experienced about the topics of “sexism, racism, bigotry, etc.”, is that education level or where you are from has nothing to do with how a person reacts and treats these issues.

By the way when I worked as a Metrology Engineer, our Mechanical Metrology Laboratory was set at 20 C plus or minus .1 C, and Electronics Metrology Laboratory set for 23 C plus or minus .1 C. You would get “sleepy” in the Electronics Metrology Laboratory (73.4 F) and wide awake in the Mechanical Metrology Laboratory (68 F). Interesting how the human body reacts to a small change in temperature!

Tom