If a woman wants to be treated like meat all she need do is leave the house, and at some point during the day she will be inspected more closely than she would if she was cow at auction. However, it is much less common for a man to receive similar treatment. But there is one place a man can go to be treated similarly: nice grocery store. I live and work near nice areas so while I do my primary shopping at low end stores I can shop at Central Market or Wholefoods. (While I think much of the organic/whole food crazy is silly, those stores have way nicer stuff than Safeway. No sprouted onions or wrinkled peppers, and you can barely go a few steps without being offered help.)
The best time for a guy to go if he wants to be treated like meat is from 2:30 to 6 on a weekday, when most people are working or just getting off. During those hours I have noticed that almost everyone in the store is female. (I figure that the women from 2:30 to about 4 are housewives, and since men don’t usually shop for dinner everyday since single men shop late or on the weekend, the women from 4-6 are single professional women just picking up a couple things for their dinner.) Either way every time I shop during those hours the number of women who are super nice, or seem to “need” the same things I do “repeatedly” goes way up. Even more amusing is that some will “need” things off high shelves or after I walk down an aisle right as I turn and I can see them for a split second, and they are staring at me, with that “predator” look. Now I am not Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom or whoever the hot guy all the women want, but they are just regular women too. While many of the women are quite open about their “interest”, I have tested the assumption to ensure I am not misreading the signals. By shopping at these same stores outside, the stated time interval, the same type of women who are now accompanied by their mates or kids, are far less interested, and just want to shop and go home. Now this same thing happens at Walmart and Safeway during the same hours, but if I am going to get chatted up by total stranger at a store I am going with the woman at Wholefoods who is wearing clothes from Neiman’s and carrying a Coach purse and works out everyday, rather than the Walmart woman in an old T-shirt and sweat pants, buying 12 pounds of snack cakes. Call me shallow but if someone is going to stare at my ass or try and touch me, I want quality! ;)
What is more useful is that these same stores are in a gay part of town, so most of the employees and male shoppers are shall we say coveting the women’s Prada’s. (I have no idea if any of the women are wearing Prada’s but given the area it is likely.) The reason it is useful is that a lot of gay men like manly men. So the “associates” as they are called will walk right past an attractive woman and help me, when at my normal store I couldn’t get them away from her with a net and tranquilizer gun. Most men are nervous around gays because they are insecure, and being hit on by a man causes to question their sexuality and like Yoda said fear leads to anger... I am straight and I have no reason to question that, so when another man makes eyes at me or stares at my crotch, I feel fuzzy inside since it is just a complement. However, the best part is getting special treatment, since pretty women get special treatment all the time, but I get it rarely. When the guy behind the counter is making eyes at you, you generally get free stuff. (Yes, a man can be excited by a getting a free nutmeg or cheese risotto cake, and still be straight.)
I am not trying to demean the plight of women who spend their lives being hooted at by morbidly obese construction workers, but if you consider the alternative, which would you rather have? Also, I just find it amusing and ironic that in that place at that time, I can see how the other half lives, as 30 and 40 something women think lurid thoughts me and men make eyes and treat me nice.
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