beauty and guys.

[YellowDaisy]

i noticed that alot of the things girls do with their appearance, only other girls notice and admire. since i am now going into the female gender, i've started getting some compliments from women on my appearance. i try to look my best, and i've become more interested in getting admired by guys, but none of them seem to care. that's something that's very distinctly different between men and women.

[Silver]

I always thought women dressed for other women.

The way to dress for male attention is well, to wear less lol. Stereotypical I know.

[valyn_faer]

You'll also notice that most men don't care whether a woman is carrying a purse from Target or a $500+ designer purse. It begs the question then, are women really getting boob jobs to please men as so many feminists claim? Or are they getting boob jobs because it's fashionable in the same way that it's fashionable to carry an expensive designer handbag? Perhaps it's not men who impose standards of beauty on women, but women who impose standards of beauty on women. In a similar vein, a columnist for nerve.com wrote about an experiment she performed in Central Park. Apparently there are no laws against going topless in Central Park, so she went bare chested one day to see the reactions of others. She said she received the most disapproval and angry looks from other women. It makes sense that men wouldn't object, but it's interesting that so many women did.

[kyril]

Standards of female appearance are set by women. Not that men don't appreciate women looking nice, but straight men's definition of "looking nice" is rather more flexible than the dictates of fashion, and in some cases in direct conflict with them.