Slightly more seriously, I think women have been subjected to so much patriarchal bullshit over the ages that they got tired of feeling all helpless about it so then they went like, you know what, I loooooove it, give it to me, I'll lap it up. Jennifer Lopez would add Papi at the end. And Britney Spears would go hit me baby one more time.
Something like that.
Since women are gonna get the bullshit anyway, maybe it's a matter of feeling less powerless?
But most women still want to identify with beautiful figures for themselves, ones which have grandeur d'âme and pureness of heart and the potential to appear on Vogue's September issue. Like, "he's a 100% asshole and yet magnificent me still loves him! Aren't I amazing, body and soul? I'm such a superior being". And a lot of us (I think) like the idea of being the object of obsession. It's a situation that also gives the feminine figure a large measure of power over the man.
I totally agree that a lot of it is men trying to brainwash us into thinking their beer belly is the best while we should go on striving to give them bones and boobs, but I was trying to think of what could be in it for the women.
Dude, I dunno ;p. I'm totally just using serious issues as excuses to use my icon here.
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Date: 2011-08-25 09:09 am (UTC)Something like that.
Since women are gonna get the bullshit anyway, maybe it's a matter of feeling less powerless?
But most women still want to identify with beautiful figures for themselves, ones which have grandeur d'âme and pureness of heart and the potential to appear on Vogue's September issue. Like, "he's a 100% asshole and yet magnificent me still loves him! Aren't I amazing, body and soul? I'm such a superior being". And a lot of us (I think) like the idea of being the object of obsession. It's a situation that also gives the feminine figure a large measure of power over the man.
I totally agree that a lot of it is men trying to brainwash us into thinking their beer belly is the best while we should go on striving to give them bones and boobs, but I was trying to think of what could be in it for the women.
Dude, I dunno ;p. I'm totally just using serious issues as excuses to use my icon here.