Standards of beauty

MagsJ · September 9, 2007, 5:29pm

Nicely put, Satyr!

We are all somewhere on the scale of compromise, I’m sure: from the easy to the hard to acquire…

Let the game playing begin!!! hair-style bang on trend / make-up/man-make-up in this season’s colours / clothes on trend, and go!!! Give me a break - if you gotta go to all that trouble to get the perfect mate: it’s gonna be even more work to hold onto them - I believe in natural attraction: not some handed down method of luring a person into one’s charms, a’la the geisha mode.

I’m not panning a whole culture: just don’t encroach on mine/ my opinion.

Jakob · September 9, 2007, 8:03pm

Satyr:

jagermeister330:

I wasn’t entirely sure where to put this thread, and I figured this was probably the least offensive place to put it, and plus I plan on rambling a bit, and look, I’ve already started.

Anyway, I have always found myself objecting to the feminist idea that guys are pigs because they prefer a certain standard of beauty. Now, history tells us that this standard has varied throughout different historical periods and cultures. I don’t know enough about possible genetic/biological/etc. factors for this to comment on it intelligently, but at the same time I don’t think that feminists do either.
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I don’t find overweight women physically attractive. I also don’t find underweight women (see Keira Knightley, the Olsen twins, etc.) physically attractive.
But if you listen to these so-called “feminist intellectuals”, it’s simply that men are dogs and that’s that, and we’re the sole reason some women develop eating disorders, and that clearly, any portrayal of a woman most men find attractive today in a magazine or on tv or in any other medium is sending a terrible message. As if trying to be physically attractive to the other sex is a terrible crime against womanhood (or, more hysterically, womynhood).

Thoughts?

If you want to attract soemthing then you must give in to its demands and expectations.

Any interaction entails a loss of freedom.

If one needs to eat, he hunts.
In hunting he must study, observe, empathize and strategize based on the preys whims and nature.

In so doing the hunter’s will is guided and it sumbits to the need for the other.

The same goes for mating.

The weakness, is the need itself, which results in compromises and sacrifices.

‘Be the flame, not the moth’ - Casanova

MagsJ · September 9, 2007, 8:41pm

Two flames one hot meet