Re: Saunas

From: BEThexton <bethexton_at_dTNySY3Zbp8FYwVCldr5NGy36wsCHApuBC9fJ4Hd6H45hu4nHzyUzY3W5muCnhurp3>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:59:19 -0000

> At 4:32 PM -0500 2/21/02, KYER, JEFFREY wrote:
>
> >The sauna is a 'man' thing. Just like the Loom House is a woman
thing.
>
> Hmmm. I find this a little hard to believe -- the men get a
> cleaning/hygiene/communal thing that the women don't? I suspect the
> women use the sauna; they just don't use it for punishing contests.

Of course, from the women's point of view the men go in when the fire is barely dying down and it is ridiculously hot, while the women go at the optimum time when it is still hot but not insanely so.

Alternatively, they go on different days, and in the women's view they just know how to set fires better to get just the right conditions.

It is sort of like cooking chili--"most" women are proud when everyone says how tasty it is and ask for seconds, "most" men are proud when everyone says how hot it is, and nobody but them can finish their bowl.

--Bryan