Picking up from here:
What men routinely get away with in L.A. would get the tips of their noses sliced off in most of the social channels in New York. Women are different in New York; their methods of womanly operation are different from those in Southern California: more brains, more independent wealth, less sexual Uncle Tomming. New York women look at L.A. women with the same head-shaking dismay with which L.A. women regard beauty-pageant contestants.
