HeyJaredAnil Talwar
Gatherer of odd moments and stray thoughts. Always curious, sometimes tangled in the unseen.
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The Woman Who Walks Into the Room (opens the original)
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I have noticed something over the years about the way women look at other women. It is not quite the same as the way men do it.A man will notice a woman in a good dress, decide that she is attractive, perhaps wonder who she is with, and usually move on. Women, at least in my experience, often seem to have a longer process. The dress is noticed, but so are the shoes, the handbag, the hair, the makeup and the way she carries herself.Is the dress too tight? Are the shoes unnecessarily expensive? Do
The K in Knife Is Doing Nothing (opens the original)
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The Most Dangerous Question in the World: “Does this make me look fat?” (opens the original)
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There are questions in life that have perfectly reasonable answers. Then there is this one. “Does this make me look fat?” If you are a man, there is usually a brief moment when your brain stops working and survival instincts take over. You know this is not a question to be answered casually. Say yes and you are insensitive. Say no too quickly and you are obviously lying. Say, “It’s probably the way the dress fits ,” and you have somehow managed to turn a simple question into a situation.I learnt
Has Flirting Become Too Complicated? (opens the original)
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The Older I Get, the More I Realise Women Notice Everything (opens the original)
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The older I get, the more I realise women notice everything. Not everything, obviously. I’m sure there are plenty of things women don’t notice, and probably plenty of things they have very sensibly decided not to notice. But give a woman enough time around you and she will know things you didn’t realise you were communicating.The change in your voice. The fact that you answered a little too quickly. The message that suddenly got shorter. The person you mentioned twice but apparently didn’t mean
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