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If you read the article that comes from, you may want to take notice how utterly passive women seem to be. Notice for example, this paragraph:
How shocking it is to find that women are assessing the appearance of their genitals in comparison to other women. Because women never do that about anything else? It's not like there isn't a billion dollar industry that has grown up in response to women's desire to compare their faces, their hair, their clothes, their bodies, their speech patterns and the way they move to other women? It's not like there aren't websites where women can go and cheerfully dissect ever detail of any female public figure's appearance and self presentation?
And given that this stuff all exists, is anyone surprised that now that the pubic has become public, some women are obsessing about competing with other women on the basis of the appearance of their genitals? This isn't a man-driven issue. Guys aren't thinking, "Of all the women I might have a relationship with, I think I'll pick Lucy because she has a better looking Za Za."Rather, women are comparing with other women and, as they often do, putting far too much emphasis on sexual status.
Final question, wouldn't a society that is "oversexualized" be more concerned with actually having sex than with concerns about sexual appearance? Yes, sexual appearance would matter in such a society but don't you sometimes think that women are far more concerned with their sexual status than with actually having sex? Yes, those are rhetorical questions. But why do we forget this? Why say it's an overly sexual culture in the first place? Isn't that a distraction from the real issue which is the extraordinary lengths women will go to to get sexual status.
Is there any comparable male tendency that could pass by and attract so little critical attention?
With the rise of procedures like vaginoplasty and labiaplasty to enhance the appearance of their genitalia or achieve some sort of sexual ideal, women are being "misled or confused about what is 'normal'," experts have revealed.Well, it's a good thing this has been revealed by "experts" otherwise we might become skeptical.
If you read the article that comes from, you may want to take notice how utterly passive women seem to be. Notice for example, this paragraph:
She said that Internet pornography and removing pubic hair through Brazilian waxing or shaving give women unrealistic expectations about their bodies or what they believe men like and goes as far as to compare vaginal rejuvenation procedures to "new age female circumcision"."She" in this case is Dr. Cheryl B. Iglesia. She says that "Internet pornography" and "removing pubic hair" give women unrealistic expectations. They give women a false impression. Women don't "take" this onto themselves, they don't "reach" the wrong conclusions, they haven't "make a mistake" about the relative importance of some minor issue of personal appearance, or anything else that suggests intentionality or active participation on their part. No, once again, every stupid thing that some group of women do somewhere is something that has happened to them and, therefore, not their fault.
Iglesia believes women have been "duped" by an entire culture that is oversexualized.Read that critically and you just might start thinking that there is something about women that is really at work here. Iglesia starts off blaming the culture but pretty soon she reveals something she, and everyone else, knows about the situation that isn't polite to talk about in our post-feminist culture. With all the waxing and grooming, "women are comparing". Here at last we get some confirmation that women are capable of active thought, although the active thought seems like something men are supposed to grow out of before leaving high school. Why can't women be held to the same standard?
"Everyone sees 'Sex in the City' and are getting their public hair removed and looking down there," she said.
"They are watching Internet porn and looking at Playboy and Penthouse with a lot of touched up and airbrushed pictures," she said.
She said that with pubic waxing and grooming, younger women are "comparing".
"They feel like they are abnormal," she added.
How shocking it is to find that women are assessing the appearance of their genitals in comparison to other women. Because women never do that about anything else? It's not like there isn't a billion dollar industry that has grown up in response to women's desire to compare their faces, their hair, their clothes, their bodies, their speech patterns and the way they move to other women? It's not like there aren't websites where women can go and cheerfully dissect ever detail of any female public figure's appearance and self presentation?
And given that this stuff all exists, is anyone surprised that now that the pubic has become public, some women are obsessing about competing with other women on the basis of the appearance of their genitals? This isn't a man-driven issue. Guys aren't thinking, "Of all the women I might have a relationship with, I think I'll pick Lucy because she has a better looking Za Za."Rather, women are comparing with other women and, as they often do, putting far too much emphasis on sexual status.
Final question, wouldn't a society that is "oversexualized" be more concerned with actually having sex than with concerns about sexual appearance? Yes, sexual appearance would matter in such a society but don't you sometimes think that women are far more concerned with their sexual status than with actually having sex? Yes, those are rhetorical questions. But why do we forget this? Why say it's an overly sexual culture in the first place? Isn't that a distraction from the real issue which is the extraordinary lengths women will go to to get sexual status.
Is there any comparable male tendency that could pass by and attract so little critical attention?
Here is the most delicious counter-example to the insinuation that men make women dress hyper-sexually:
ReplyDeleteI went to a video gaming convention this last weekend. Such convention is not only filled to the brim with simple gamers, but uber-gamers. The kids who played (play?) D&D. Some of the most unappealing, beta males you have ever seen in your life [myself ... excluded...]. This is not a place to pick up masculine, powerful men. [side-note: I've never seen such a density of utilikilts. Orders of magnitude higher density than anywhere else in the Northwest.]
Yet, among the attractive women in attendance, many of them we're dressing up as the most lascivious gaming characters possible. Halloween come early. To what end? There aren't hardly any males worth appealing to. They can't possibly be motivated by the men in attendance.
Fascinating. That is a subculture I have little knowledge of so I won't say too much. But, you're right, a lot of those women in those photos are definitely seeking sexual status and probably not, as you surmise, actual sex partners.
DeleteI don't mind admitting that I enjoyed looking at some of those pictures though. I wouldn't want women to stop doing this although I am often appalled at the lack of self-respect and sophistication that we so often see it done with nowadays.