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(29,503 posts)Because, strangely, they did NOT look at her in London.
>>In Paris, Prime Minister Edith Cresson put the problem thus: "It's a question of education, and I consider it something of a weakness."
Her disdainful view of the Englishman's warmth -- she passed similarly harsh judgments on American and German men -- was expressed in an interview four years ago, long before her appointment as prime minister, but only now published, to her embarrassment.
"The English are not interested in women. It is astonishing. I remember strolling about in London and men in the streets don't look at you. In Paris, the men look at you all the time," she said, adding the suspicion that one in four Englishmen might be gay.<<
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-06-21/news/1991172056_1_french-literature-english-men-manhood