redsamurai
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LuluDeren said:First, you've implied two different concepts, one of fad/fashion (which is completely mutable in time), and one of physical attractiveness (which is MARGINALLY transitory in time, but DOES have a common denominator in our western culture-that of the Greek Idea of Perfection). Whether you like it or not, you and everyone on this board are *Owned* by the quest to attain this ideal.
You obviously haven't read many of my posts.........honestly, I came here because of the whole internet steroids thing. I like to lift heavy weights and make marked improvements in my strength year to year. I didn't come here to inquire about the virtues of waxing my eyebrows. I have my own ideal...........and "to my detriment"........it makes me intimidating and unattractive to the average woman. But it's who I am..........and I'm not altering myself or my physical goals to the whims of women. I mean, you'd be changing shit up every month if you tailored yourself to what you "perceived" women want in a man. That is why I offer NO PRETENSE about myself............EVER!!! I am who I am...........like it or leave it. You're correct in saying that men are going down this same path............BUT IT"S A NEGATIVE!!! And one day when women wake up and their man is trying on their heels..............well....................that'll be a day won't it?
.As for the passing of a fad, and following said definition of whichever fad (false eyelashes, Clara Bow lips, permed hair, blue eyeshadow), you fail to understand a basic human need as a social animal: assimilation with a group, REGARDLESS of YOUR personal opinion on THEIR ritual
I perfectly understand the need.........I feel it myself at times. But I resist because I wish to keep my individuality. It's a "pull to the mean"......do you understand that? Look at your wording..........."assimiliation"..........that about sums it up. Why would anyone want to wholly "assimilate" into a group of people is beyond me. We're always going to share certain traits with this group or that.............but wouldn't you want to "strive" to be different in some ways? Obviously when it comes to base functions of existence we're going to assimilate in certain aspects so we can survive and support each other.
What I can't figure out is why it pisses you off so much, surely you have more pressing issues (and that was purely rhetorical, I really am not interested in your personal problems).
It's an internet chat board freulein...........when you are here typing on this board, by definition you do not have "more pressing issues"..........otherwise you wouldn't be here. This is a place for such discussions........and I didn't even start this thread. Remember this quote?
LuluDeren said:Seriously, would it kill you to compose paragraphs? Oh yeah, and generalisms never make for a strong argument. Merry Christmas
surely you had more pressing issues than to come to this chat board and nose your way into this discussion..............

1) it is far from arbitrary and capricious. It is a science of marketing.
which it makes it arbitrary and capricious by definition
.2) Provide proof that gay men are the sole barometers of what women should look like in any given period
I admit I have no proof...............just circumstantial evidence from watching the E channel and seeing nothing but gay men whenever they go to fashion shows. I'm not 100% on this one.........but isn't the fashion and makeup industry "predominantly" owned by effite men? Maybe I'm just connecting my own dots............but women in the fashion industry tend not to look like women but look like androgenous and malnutritioned naifs.
Of course I want to be valued for what I am as a moral being and as a creative spirit rather than what I look like, but it is a biological fact that EVERYONE is attracted to the Suprabeautiful.
define "suprabeautiful"?? Are there blueprints I can look at? What are the perfect dimensions for a woman?
That is your preference, you are entitled to seek it. The status quo is the status quo, no one forces you to stay within it's parameter, but those who choose to, who are they bothering?
If that is who they are, that is who they are. What is distressing is the pull that the status quo has. Status quo means "no change", ie stagnation. It is death to a society.
Again, if people choose to get enhancements, that is a personal choice and, then more power to them.if it makes them feel better about themselves and their interaction with peers in their social groups
and that is the problem with social groups. A person must get "enhancements" to feel better amongst their social group? To me that is the decay of the fabric of the human spirit. It's not a problem with the individual, it's a problem with the group that doesn't value diversity. Again, defects are one thing........but take breast augmentation. Small breast are not a defect.........but this society has turned it in to one, and you know this to be true. The human function of breasts can be achieved with small or large bosoms...........but in this society, we've turned them into something more.
Don't fool yourself, RS. Men *pretend* to have bigger bank (what THEY are valued for in our society) than they do.
<sigh> again, I think you've not read many posts of mine.........otherwise you'd understand I'm perfectly aware of this. In fact, I'm probably much more aware of the deeper linings of this than you are or will ever be. We also pretend to have bigger cocks don't we? Yes........men are being broken down too............i get it...............I get it more than you ever will. Like I've been trying to get across to you...........I was never singling women out in the first place. It may have come across like that...........but those who know me would be the first to tell you I come down on men WAY harder than I do on women.
.You need to get out and hug a tree, seriously, because it truly is a beautiful world
Yes, it is a beautiful "world"............but we're not. As it stands right now...........we are indisputably the ugliest creature on this planet and really the "known" universe. Maybe that will change someday..........but as of right now, it's fact.