@Minuend how does this obese/warty example prove anything. Isn't it more sensible to talk about the average case? Like, what about the fact that the workplace is the second-leading source of romantic partners (after social circle)?
And let me be clear once again btw - I have no opinion on whether it's good or bad in general that men and women work together. I'm just saying that if you think men (or women for that matter) are able to completely isolate and suppress their emotions towards the opposite sex at will - that's just unrealistic.
Sensible to what purpose? You made a statement about men's feelings toward women in a workspace, so I commented based on that. I take it you agree there are exceptions to what men are attracted to, then. All men are not attracted to all women. So then it becomes your opinion that, what, men will be attracted to 70% of them? 50%? 10%?
You're also kinda mixing stuff together in your last statement. I never talked about suppressing feelings or that romances never happen. I said it's possible to compartmentalize your feelings (ofc, levels of attraction varies, you generally find people attractive more often than you fall in love). Which you can compare to how you're aware of your negative emotions toward someone, but you don't let them control you or act on them. It's possible to do the same with attractions. Being attracted can be just this nice, comfy feeling you carry around, doesn't have to be more than that.
If you're in love with someone, that tend to cloud your judgement a bit more, but I didn't get the impression we were talking about infatuations. Also, depending on your job, even being infatuated might not be that much of a distraction. A lot of people do repetitive tasks that don't require much mental energy.
People finding their partner at work isn't relevant to how men will still not be infatuated with most women, and how they can still manage to work fine with women they are "only" attracted to.
And even though work is one of the second most common place to find a partner (does this include customers, business partners etc?), it doesn't mean the majority of people in one place will fall in love and get together. It just means people have a higher tendency to find someone through work, it doesn't tell us the numbers of how often people get together at work or how many and how often people are attracted to their coworkers. Those statistics don't tell us much about what happens in a workplace.
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After I wrote that stuff about osteoporosis, I started health analysis-ed other people. You are vulnerable to the common cold and developing pollen allergies.
Animekitty has talked a bit about his problems, I guess.
RB: neurological (erm, not as in a haha ur braindead thing, but like the nervous system thing that is more than just the brain thing)
higs: autoimmune, sensitive skin problems.
Serac: arthritis or something else related to joints
Jenny: don't know. Brain fog and fatigue?