women who flap their hands at their faces in hot weather

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Why do they do this? It makes no difference at all.
I would never bite them, but I do think about it.

It blows some air in your face which gives you s teeny tiny feeling of cool for about a second

Why do you only hate WOMEN who do it?

Why do people fan themselves when they're too warm?????

For me it's much the same as women who flap their hands at their face when they are emotional.....daft.

I do this...it's to alert people that I'm unusually hot rather than just sweaty/red in the face.

Clearly you aren't yet menopausal.

Why do people start weird judgey threads about harmless things other people do? Particularly when those things have a perfectly reasonable explanations if they just thought about it a little 😏

"to alert people that you are unusually hot"!!?? Why do people need to know? Surely if you are hot, they are hot too? It's alerting attention to yourself. Do you really need to do this?

What Punjana said.

Misogynism is alive and well in this thread.

Those bloody women, doing what they like again, without permission and too. Those bitches!

How DARE they flap their tiny wee hands and offend you all so much! Grrrrrr! Damn them to Hades!

What stick said

Flap flap flap

It does make a difference. Perhaps next time you're too hot, you might attempt it and realise the benefits.

Punjana...it is harmless, but it's also daft. When people do daft things, other people like to talk about it, it's human nature. Someone above has already said it's to alert people to the fact that they are hot, so they want attention, I suspect in a "I'm a silly woman type of way".

Why do people keep their usernumbernames when it's piss easy to change it to a proper username?

Are we to assume OP is a man though?

Flapping my hands in front of my face does provide a small cooling effect.

I've just flapped myself, and it certainly did produce a wee breeze. So, maybe they do it because they're hot and there's no breeze. Is that that hard to fathom out for yourself?

It moves the air, just a small amount but that can be enough to cool. It's why you often see rocking chairs on the porches in the hotter parts of America; a tiny bit of air movement can have a cooling effect.

Clearly those of you who are puzzled by this are not menopausal. You will realise at some point in the future why you do this.

I suspect in a "I'm a silly woman type of way"

Yeah THAT or errrmmmm... to let other people know she is hot and not just a sweaty person or to maybe alert someone to put on air conditioning!

Why would you assume op is a man? Not all women flap their hands in their face all the time. If you are really hot, flapping your hand in your face will make you hotter, from the very action of flapping!