25 - Wednesday, July 31, 1985 - North Shore News

Up in arms over arm rests

DEAR MISS MANNERS --
What can a woman do about
the struggle for the armrest
between two airline or
theatre seats?

When women sit in a seat
that shares an armrest with
the neighboring seat, they
typically keep their arms in
their laps to avoid invading
the territory of the neighbor-

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ing seat. But most men im-
mediately plant their arms
on the armrests ef their seats
- at least if the neighbor is a
woman or child, who can be
expected to keep her arms in
her lap.

The woman must then br-
ing her arm even closer in, to
avoid contact with the man's
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the forearm rests comfor-
tably on the armrest.

If the woman determines
to place her arm on the ar-
mrest anyway, most men
don't relinquish it, so they
end up sitting cozily with
their arms caressing -- a sit-
uation which can become
downright dangerous, since
many men take this to be a
form of flirting on the part
of (of course) the woman.

it is a struggle that women
are likely to lose, since phys-
ical contact is, on the whole,

“something that most women

scek to avoid (at least with
atrange men) whereas not a
few men seek to establish it
(even with strange women).

- Is there a way to claim
one’s right to the armrest, or
at lerst to keep if neutrally

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battle regalia to fight this
question out as part of the
war between the sexes.

The fact is that the ar-
mrest belongs to the first
person to claim it. If the vic-

free, without
misinterpreted as
contact?
GENTLE READER..-
You will have to excuse Miss
Manners from donning full

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however, it may be recon-
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Elbow intrusion may also
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