Posted by noa on July 24, 2003, at 5:50:47
In reply to Re: Blurr-ipity Woop! Meepy Weep! Boing. Boing., posted by Tabitha on July 23, 2003, at 22:43:01
>>Sometimes I think women are more into the way that women look than
>>men are.>Women just notice the subtleties a bit more.
I think this is true!
>I think men have only 2 or 3 categories for female attractiveness.
And the 3 categories just might be breasts, breasts and breasts, LOL. Actually, what do we think they are? Maybe breasts, thinness, and long hair?
And, I think homophobia is less of an issue for women than men, so we are freer to express what we think about how another woman looks.
I think that either there is some underlying evolutionary purpose to why women notice how other women look--and why women often are dressing for other women's critical eyes more than for what men notice (maybe we think they don't notice the important stuff?), like maybe it establishes status among the women of the tribe or something......OR, we are conditioned by the fashion/cosmetics industies and magazines, etc. to notice how each other looks and dresses etc., or maybe the cosmetics/fashion/marketing angle is just like a megaexplosion of how the women of the tribe communicate non-verbally about who is going to be the alpha female?
But I do think women often pick style based on what other women would think. Although, maybe that is changing lately as the styles become increasingly scanty and revealing--maybe the styles are more oriented now toward what men think? Nah, the scanty styles still have the female critcial eye angle--women think about what other women will think about their ability to show off their flat tummies in their belly shirts.
OK, but shoes? Definitely something women notice much more than men!!
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