Look into Nancy Henley

Beautiful women

Inspiring smiles and eyes.

Feminine gestures, and gestures of these women.

It is sometimes difficult to avoid the passive, unthreatening, ever-smiling feminine gestures that undercut any confident verbal rhetoric I espouse. This is something I am going to address with reference to feminist psychology on power and body language.

Non-reciprocal Touching-accepted by women

(peeling hands off one's own shoulder)

Smiling

out of obligation

ornament the streets?

Sitting

tucking in the limbs

Couples

dominant hands

stepping aside

position in space, relationship to hands, faking emotions

"That's not a problem."

"Great, have a wonderful day."

A greeting. "Hello, I am less powerful than you."

Where do we want to locate our power? Do we locate it at all?

Fighting the feminine dynamic...

I would really love it if men just considered these ideas.

"Oh wow, I seem to touch women but they never touch me." Not that they should stop, just that they should realize the implications of this.

Folded in. Sewing. Braiding. Crafting. Cooking. Huddle over. Crouching. Inward. Together. Smaller. Shrinking.

Even "introverted" men have learned to cope. Broad, outward, but perhaps silent.

Power struggle. Some one has to have it in the large spectrum. Do I want it, and furthermore, why would I?