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Tony
A very interesting comment!
I agree that the wave of virulent anti-male feminism seems to have crested some time ago, but I doubt if women are doing what they do to impress males.
I think that given so many primping, preening airheaded role models to emulate ( Vide the Britney Spears Thing ) most young females have become more autolotrous than ever before.
One suspects that they adorn themselves less to attract males than to taunt them with their unavailability ; to flaunt their beauty in the face of male ugliness and brutishness.
Okay, this might be a highly jaundiced view, and is of course an exaggeration, but like all other exaggerations it contains a kernel of truth.
posted by
ariel70
on March 2, 2007 at 7:52 AM
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I agree - it's probably not as bad as all that anymore.
It was bad in the eighties, but less so now. Just look at the trend among women, for example to be thin, to have breast enhancement, etc. Whether this is directly to appeal to males or not, a lot of it musdt be down to impressing themselves or their friends with their attractiveness to men and to the male ideal, or their idea of the male ideal. Whereas back in the eighties, at least among the young trendy women, it was very common to have no make-up or feminine clothes at all. it was a very drab period.
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 2, 2007 at 5:54 AM
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An uneasy confession
I can belch the alphabet and my husband is an excellent shopper. GASP!
We
might be human beings, but according to some book or other we're probably from Venus and Mars. I'm not so sure which of us is from where though. Actually, I think we just moved to Earth for the better climate.
posted by
Helen_Bach
on February 28, 2007 at 2:37 PM
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Ariel
A powerful statement! Our society's public face, as visible in the media and entertainment, and to some degree also in various policies formulated by our govenments, certainly exhibits all the charactersistics you describe. However, I think there is a (possibly growing) gap between that and society's informal or 'private' face, as it were.
For quite some time now I have observed among my (by and large well educated) friends a certain mulishness, a refusal to play the game, an often sarcastic dismissal of feminist claims to superiority. I think 'on the ground' there is a distinct backlash to strident feminism.
posted by
Nautikos
on February 28, 2007 at 2:23 PM
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