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* On ''Series/{{CSI}}'', Hodges is trying to determine how much alcohol a tampon can absorb. He's stumped, as each time he sinks the absorbent cotton part in a beaker of booze, it expands too much to be used afterward. Wendy comes to his rescue and demonstrates the cardboard applicators' mechanics. Hodges remarks that he'd always wondered how that worked, and she smugly replies: "All men do".

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* On ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
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Hodges is trying to determine how much alcohol a tampon can absorb. He's stumped, as each time he sinks the absorbent cotton part in a beaker of booze, it expands too much to be used afterward. Wendy comes to his rescue and demonstrates the cardboard applicators' mechanics. Hodges remarks that he'd always wondered how that worked, and she smugly replies: "All men do".do".
** In "[[Recap/CSIS1E14ToHalveAndToHold To Halve And To Hold]]", as part of her interrogation of three female murder suspects, one of whom says she was raped by the victim, Sara frankly beings explaining how forensics can determine the difference between rape and consensual sex by drawing a diagram of a vagina on a chalkboard and pointing out where major v. minor injuries would respectively occur. Very shortly into her talk, the male officer who'd brought the women in for questioning awkwardly excuses himself saying, "Uh, Sidle, I'm just gonna be right outside the door here."
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* A key theme in ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides'', as the boys struggle to solve the mystery of the Lisbon girls--which has as much to do with their femininity as with their suicidal impulses.

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* A key theme in ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides'', as the boys struggle to solve the mystery of the Lisbon girls--which has as much to do with their femininity as with their suicidal impulses. [[spoiler:Literally the closest we get to [[MotiveRant an explanation]] from the Lisbon sisters is one of them telling her therapist "you never were a fourteen-year-old girl."]]

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