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A comment on British men

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zas1 · 03/10/2015 09:27

Not from me but my colleague. She is younger 30ish very pretty intelligent a bit brittle but sound enough. She is from the South of France. She complained vociferously about British men being far too reserved about their attraction to women & says she misses the attention she gets at home. Thought this was interesting as a thought. Presumably she is not talking about what we would call street harassment but something else.

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AliMonkey · 03/10/2015 09:42

Maybe the British men just don't find her attractive ...

clam · 03/10/2015 09:45

Maybe you could think of a similarly sweeping generalisation to make about tens of millions of Frenchmen.

PushingThru · 03/10/2015 09:48

I hated the catcalling & overt attention from French men when I was there. It'd probably be better now I'm a bit older, but I really didn't like it.

SquirmOfEels · 03/10/2015 09:55

What is it she is after?

If it's a relationship, then dropping the racial stereotyping and concentrating on the individuals (instead of lamenting that 'they' are not all concentrating on her) might help.

If she just wants metaphorical crowd applause, then she needs to study her crowd (which isn't all 'British men' but a very narrow subset), work out what is attention grabbing for them, and do it.

Or she could start planning a move back to a place where she thinks she's a better fit.

Though of course, she might just have been having a good natured one-off gripe, and would never have expected anyone to be brooding on it.

lorelei9 · 03/10/2015 17:07

zas1, I think you should ask her what she means. If she means being chatted up, that definitely still goes on. If she means strangers pays compliments in the supermarket, that goes on (and I hate it). So I wonder what she is talking about?

btw what does "brittle" mean please?

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